معرفی
Cinzia Russi is Professor of Romance and Italian Linguistics and director of the Graduate Portfolio Program in Romance Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts. Her academic career spans over two decades with expertise in historical linguistics, morphosyntax, and Italian dialectology.
Her primary research focuses on:
- Historical (socio)linguistics with emphasis on (morpho)syntactic change
- Development of Italian discourse markers from a comparative Romance perspective
- Language of contemporary Italian crime fiction
- Metaphor and metonymy across languages and time periods
- Language of medicine in Old Italian
- Application of Cognitive Grammar to Italian language teaching
Dr. Russi teaches undergraduate and graduate courses including Advanced Italian, Introduction to Italian Linguistics, Introduction to Romance Linguistics, and specialized courses on Italian television advertising and the language of Italian crime fiction. Her recent publications demonstrate a progression from theoretical historical linguistics to applied studies of contemporary Italian language phenomena, particularly in literary and media contexts.
As Program Director for the Graduate Portfolio Program in Romance Linguistics, she oversees specialized graduate training while maintaining an active research agenda that bridges historical and contemporary linguistic analysis.
