Phd in DOCUMENTATION STUDIES, LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE

Research: The reading and reception of maculine form as generic in professional role names: a study from a gender and cognitive perspective

Alessandra Rea is a PhD student in Documentation Studies, Linguistics and Literature (Curriculum Theory of Language and Linguistic Education) at Sapienza University of Rome. She is studying the reception of the use of masculine as generic in professional role names and its implications on the cognitive level. Between February and March 2023, he spent a research stay abroad at the Department of Psychology, Philosophy, and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh.

He obtained the teaching qualification for A011 (Humanities subjects and Latin in high schools) through the ordinary competition in 2020, Decree No. 499

She completed a bachelor’s degree in Modern humanities (2018) with a thesis about fantasy and realism in Matilde Serao’s prose; she completed a master’s degree in Linguistics (2020) with a linguistics analysis of the language of female characters in Romanzo della fanciulla and Una donna, both at Sapienza University of Rome. Her master’s degree’s thesis achieved the literary award for the XXI edition of the writing contest “IL PAESE DELLE DONNE ET DONNA E POESIA”.

She took part in honours programmes while she was enrolled in her master’s degree in Linguistics (2019/20). In the same year she won a student collaboration-scholarships to support PhD students during a mentoring activity aimed at first- and second-year students of Arts and Humanities.

She taught Italian, History and Geography at the middle school (I.C. Garibaldi, Aprilia) in 2020/21.