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Marina Dossena is Full Professor of English at the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Bergamo. She has held significant leadership positions including Chair of the Master's Degree in Intercultural Studies in Languages and Literatures (2015–2021), coordinator of the local unit of the Erasmus Mundus Master's Programme 'Crossways in European Humanities' (2005-2008), and director of the Department of Comparative Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (2006-2012). She currently teaches History of the English Language at the university.
Professor Dossena's research focuses on Late Modern English with particular emphasis on the Scottish context. Her work spans historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, and digital humanities. She is currently developing the Corpus of 19th-Century Scottish Correspondence, a significant resource for historical linguistic analysis. Her scholarly interests also extend to translation studies and the representation of Scottish identity across various historical periods.
Her extensive publication record demonstrates a consistent focus on Scottish language and literature from the Late Modern period through contemporary times. Key themes across her work include the construction of national identity, language ideology, historical sociolinguistics, and the relationship between language and cultural representation. Her research often bridges disciplinary boundaries, incorporating insights from literary studies, cultural history, and political discourse analysis.
Professor Dossena has received recognition as an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies since 2017. She serves as co-editor of 'Token: A Journal of English Linguistics', a Class A scholarly journal indexed in Scopus, and co-founded 'InScriptum: A Journal of Language and Literary Studies'. Her editorial work has significantly contributed to the field of English linguistics.
She is actively involved in international scholarly networks, participating in CLAVIER (the International Committee of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies), the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics in Edinburgh, the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies in Durham, and the Scottish Centre for Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies. Since 2013, she has participated in the Coruña Corpus projects and has served as Visiting Professor at the Universities of Innsbruck, Helsinki, and Complutense de Madrid. She has been invited to deliver plenary talks at major international conferences including ICEHL 15, ESSE 2014, FRLSU 2021, and the first International Symposium on Approaches to Dialects in English Literature in Salamanca.
