Cecilia Robustelli

Cecilia Robustelli graduated with honors in Classical Literature from the University of Pisa. She continued her studies with a Master of Arts and a PhD in Italian Linguistics at the University of Reading, in the United Kingdom, where she conducted research funded by scholarships from the Accademia dei Lincei-British Academy and was a lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London; subsequently, she spent a year in the United States at Cornell University as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar. She is currently a Full Professor of Italian Linguistics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

The specific fields of his scientific research are:

• the History of grammar and development of the standard of Italian in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a topic that opened a fruitful and long-lasting collaboration with the Accademia della Crusca;
• Language policy and European multilingualism, an interest arising from participation in the meetings of the Language Center of Bocconi University and the activities of the European Federation of National Institutions for Language – EFNIL, of which CR was Italy’s representative as a delegate of the Accademia della Crusca;
• Italian language and gender, a topic addressed since 2000 based on knowledge acquired in the Anglo-American world and further explored in relation to the characteristics of the morphological system of the Italian language and those of institutional, administrative, legal, and journalistic language. The attention of the Commission and the European Parliament, as well as the interest of the central State institutions, have led to a series of institutional collaborations, among which those with the Ministry of Education, University and Research are recalled here, where it coordinated the Working Group for Gender Respect in Institutional Communication that published the Guidelines for the Use of Gender in the Administrative Language of MIUR (2018).

She has participated in and led networks and research projects, organized national and international scientific meetings, held positions at MIUR and CNR, taught in advanced courses, Master's programs, and Doctorates at other Italian and foreign universities, and has carried out and continues to carry out intense scientific seminar and third mission activities. She has 140 scientific publications to her credit.

He is a member of the technical-scientific committee of the STEP project (Stereotype and Prejudice, Univ. La Sapienza of Rome; CPO National Order of Journalists, Fnsi, Usigrai); Vice President of the European Federation of National Institutions for Language – EFNIL; full member of the Accademia della Crusca.