Federica Formato

I am interested in language and gender in Italy/Italian. My research examines sexist language used to reconstruct the traditional arragement in Italian society (men/public - women/private) and failed and successful attempts to subvert this. Using quantitative (corpus linguistics) and qualitative methods, I explore generic terms (grammatically masculine) to refer to female politicians, sexual terms to insult them. I also worked on media language when describing the gendered crime of femminicidio.

I obtained my PhD at Lancaster University in 2014. Since then I have been teaching several branches of linguistics in different UK universities. My teaching expertise ranges from language,gender and sexuality to multimodality and corpus linguistics.