Phd in DOCUMENTATION STUDIES, LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE

email: sabine.koesters@uniroma1.it
phone:
building: sede centrale, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
room: Studio C, IV piano

Curriculum vitae Sabine E. Koesters Gensini
E-mail: Sabine.Koesters@uniroma1.it
Academic employment
• Professore ordinario (Full professor) of German language and Translation
Professore associato (associated Professor) of General Linguistics at 
the Sapienza Università di Roma from 2006 to 2021
• Ricercatrice (assistant professor) of Glottologia e linguistica (Linguistics) at 
the Sapienza Università di Roma (Rome, Italy) from 01/09/2000 to 
31/10/2006.
• Affiliated Professor of German language at the Sapienza Università (Rome, 
Italy) from 1/11/2006 to present.
• Affiliated Professor of German language at the University of Naples 
‘L’Orientale’ (Naples, Italy) from 2014 to present.
• Affiliated Professor of German linguistics at the Humboldt University (Berlin, 
Germany) from 2015 to 2017
Main research areas:
• use of language with particular attention to 

o the internal variability of languages, especially German and Italian

o the morphology of spoken language

o quantitative linguistics of phonetics and phonology
o phonetic reduction of signifier and its consequences for morphology.
• linguistic ideologies during Nationalsocialism in Germany
• diachronic and synchronic stratification of German lexicon
• German Phraseology
• Contrastive Phraseology Italian-German
• Educational linguistics
• Linguistic expression of emotion in verbal communication 



Academic Degrees
• Laurea (4-year undergraduate degree) in Lingue e letterature straniere (Foreign Languages and Literatures, Humanities), Università degli Studi di Cagliari (Cagliari, Italy) 1994, Supervisor of Thesis: Prof. Tullio De Mauro, Grade: 110/110 cum laude.

• Dottorato di ricerca (PhD) in Linguistics, Università di Roma III (Rome, Italy), 1998, Supervisor: Prof. Raffaele Simone, No grading system for PhDs was operating in Italy at the time.
Recent Scholarships

• 2015/2016 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch-Dienst (DAAD) scholarship for a Research period at the (Technische Universität of Berlin, Prof. Dr. Monika Schwarz-Friesel).

Membership in Scientific Societies
• Società di linguistica italiana (SLI),
• Gruppo di studio sulla comunicazione parlata (GSCP),
• Associazione Italiana di Germanistica (AIG). 


Membership in scientific committees of Publishing Companies
• Kontrastive Linguistik/Linguistica contrastiva, Publishing company Peter 
Lang Edition (Frankfurt am Main)
• Bollettino di Italianistica, Rome, Carocci
• Sapienza Publishing company, Rome, Sapienza. 


Membership in scientific committees of Academic institutions
• scientific committee of the Summer School (Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)
• scientific committee of Crilet (Centro Ricerche Informatica e Letteratura 
‘Giuseppe Gigliozzi’), (Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)
• 2002-20012 scientific committee of Rifarsi (Centro per l’insegnamento 
dell’italiano, ricerca e formazione per l’addestramento alla redazione di 
scritture informative” (Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)
• several scientific committee of conferences and workshops in Italy and 
Europe (recently: Leko,, University of Innsbruck, 11-13.2.2016). 

Membership in Habilitation/ PhD committees
• Member of the PhD course in Linguistics, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
• 2015 Member of the jury for the Habilitation to Christine Konecny, University 
of Innsbruck (Austria)
• 2013 to 2018: Tutor of the PhD Dissertation by Melanie Kunkel at the 
Universität Hildesheim (Germany).