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Curriculum Vitae
Angela Andreani
Assegnista di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne dell’Università degli
studi di Torino, collabora al progetto di redazione di un vocabolario di anglicismi nella lingua italiana occupandosi di
ricerca lessicografica. Ha conseguito il Dottorato di Ricerca in Anglistica nel 2012 con uno studio della produzione delle
lettere elisabettiane fondato sull’analisi delle fonti archivistiche e manoscritte. Ha insegnato moduli di Storia della
Lingua Inglese e Letteratura Inglese Medievale presso l’università degli Studi di Milano.
Qualifications
2012 - PhD in English Studies, University of Milan.
Dissertation: ‘The Letters of Queen Elizabeth I, 1590-1596. Weighing archival evidence’
2008 - MA in European and Non-European Languages and Literatures, University of Milan. First in Middle English
Language and Literature.
Dissertation: ‘Of Seint Alex of Rome. The legend of the saint in MS XIII B 29 (Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale)’.
2005 - BA in Modern Languages, University of Milan. First in Germanic Philology.
Dissertation: ‘The Anglo-Saxon Recipes of Læceboc and Lacnunga’
Research
September 2013 – present
Postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Turin. Lexicographic research for a dictionary of Anglicisms in
Italian.
March 2010 – September 2012
Member of the State-funded PRIN 2008 project Writing abroad: The foreign correspondence of Queen Elizabeth I.
Archival research, localisation and transcription of the Queen’s letters in Italian and British Archives.
Research interests: philology; lexicography; early modern manuscript letters; early modern archives; History of
English.
Publications
‘Manuscripts, secretaries and scribes: the production of diplomatic letters at court’. In: Bajetta, C., G. Coatalen and
J. Gibson eds. Writing Abroad: The Foreign Correspondence of Elizabeth I. Palgrave, forthcoming.
Book review - RAYNE ALLINSON, A Monarchy of Letters. Royal Correspondence and English Diplomacy in the Reign of
Elizabeth I. Notes and Queries, 1: 2014
with G. Iamartino ‘In the Queen’s name: the writings of Elizabeth I between public and private communication’. In:
Brownlees, N., G. Del Lungo and J. Denton eds. The Language of Public and Private Communication in a Historical
Perspective, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2010: 116-134.
‘Of Seint Alex of Rome. A Middle English Version of the Life of the Saint’. Linguistica e Filologia, 28 (2009): 29-56.
Selected papers and presentations
25 May 2012
‘Letters about letters: the in-house correspondence of the Elizabethan secretariat’, paper presented at the
conference Manuscript Identities and the Transmission of Texts in the English Renaissance, Humanities Research
Institute, University of Sheffield
9 March 2012
Tutorial: ‘The use of database in textual philology. Queen Elizabeth I’s letters as a case study’, doctoral seminar
Research and Techniques of Philological Research in Renaissance Literature, University of Milan
17 Sept 2011
‘Early Modern Interlinguistic Exchanges: The Evidence of the Elizabethan Archives’, paper presented at the Early
Modern Exchanges launch conference, London UCL