Dr. Giulia Mantovani

September 2025 - August 2028

Research Associate
Chair of Romance Linguistics (French/Italian), TU Dresden

Research Assistant
Chair for Roman. Linguistics Italian/French, University of Augsburg
Project assistant of the binational Master's program Augsburg-Verona

Research Assistant
Chair of Applied Linguistics Spanish/French, University of Augsburg
Student advising and coordination of the Bachelor's and Master's degree program ANIS

Research Assistant
Chair of European Ethnology / Folklore, University of Augsburg
Revision of Italian translations into German for a doctoral thesis

Research Assistant
Chair of Romance Languages. Linguistics Italian/French, University of Augsburg
Project assistant of the binational master's program Augsburg-Verona

Student Assistant
Chair for Romance. Linguistics Italian/French, University of Augsburg
Project assistant of the binational Master Augsburg-Verona

Internship as project manager in the field of translation
Kern UK Ltd, London, Erasmus+
Supporting project management, proofreading translations, translating texts from English and German into Italian

Doctoral studies
University of Augsburg/Trento
Doctoral program "Forms of cultural exchange", grade: Summa cum laude, with label Doctor Europaeus
Title of doctoral thesis: "Il discorso sulla lingua nel giornalismo spettatoriale del Settecento. Topoi metalinguistici come tradizione discorsiva paneuropea"

Master's program
University of Augsburg
Master's degree program "Application-oriented Intercultural Linguistics", final grade: 1.21
Title of the Master's thesis: "Neologismi, prestiti e cambiamento della lingua come tema del dibattito pubblico. Un confronto fra il giornalismo spettatoriale settecentesco e il blog nell'era digitale"

Bachelor program
University of Augsburg
Bachelor's degree program "Application-oriented Intercultural Linguistics"
Title of the Bachelor's thesis: "Tinting particles and tinting in German-Italian translation comparison"

General higher education entrance qualification
Argentia High School, Gorgonzola (Milan, IT)
International relations for marketing with a focus on foreign languages

Conference of the R-NHEP group: "Forme e contenuti del transfer culturale nel giornalismo europeo (XVIII secolo-prima metà del XIX)"
University of Florence
Lecture title: "Italianismi nella traduzione tedesca del Caffè milanese(Das Caffee, Zurigo, 1769): la terminologia commerciale fra tradizione e innovazione"

39th Romance Studies Day: "Constancy and change. Romance studies and new technology"
University of Constance
Lecture title: "Analyzing Italian gerunds in 18th century multilingual text production - How far can we go with AI?"

Conference: "Discorsi sul corpo nel tempo-aspetti linguistici"
University of Augsburg
Lecture title: "'Muscoli e bellezza' (1954) & 'Armonia e bellezza' (1957): La concezione del corpo nel culturismo maschile e femminile"

Workshop: "Language contact through translation in the history of Romance and Germanic languages"
University of Germersheim
Lecture title: "Gerund forms in^18th century language contact: The case of Targioni's scientific translations from French to Italian"

XVI ISECS Congress: "Antiquity and the Shaping of the Future in the Age of Enlightenment"
Universities of La Sapienza and Tor Vergata, Rome
Lecture title: "Dagli antichi agli Spectators: (Dis-)continuità del topos 'abuso delle parole'"

Seminar series of the Institute ILIESI
Villa Mirafiori, Rome
Presentation of the doctoral project

Conference: "Il discorso sulla lingua nei giornali e nella stampa periodica dal Settecento a oggi"
University of Augsburg
Lecture title: "Gli Spectators e il tema della lingua. L'uso di topoi come tradizione discorsiva"

5th ILPE conference: "Le ideologie linguistiche nella stampa scritta e negli altri mezzi di comunicazione. Il caso delle lingue romanze"
University of La Plata/Buenos Aires
Lecture title: "Neologismi, prestiti e cambiamento della lingua come tema del dibat tito pubblico: l'uso di topoi metaforici come tradizione discorsiva fra il Settecento e
l'era digitale"

Annual Conference DGEJ: "The Legacy of the Enlightenment: Topicality, Historiography and Re-readings"
University of Augsburg
Lecture title: "Continuity and Innovation of Discourse Traditions of the Public Language Debate: Neology, Borrowing and Language Change as a Theme in 18th Century Moral Weeklies and Blogs in the Digital Age"

VIII Conference CHINED: "Ideologies in News Discourse"
University of Augsburg
Lecture title: "Publicly debating language in the 18th century: the Spectators in Italian-, German- and English-speaking areas"

Colloquium LIMES: "Colloquium for doctoral students and doctoral candidates in Romance linguistics", online
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Lecture title: "The Spectators and the subject of language: the use of metaphorical topoi as a discourse tradition in the public language debate"

Self-organized colloquium: "Transversale Studien zur Sprachdebatte - Studi trasversali sul dibattito linguistico" at the Univ. Halle-Wittenberg
Organization of a colloquium for students and doctoral candidates of Romance Studies. Title of the lecture: "Debating language publicly in the 18th century: the Moralische Wochenschrift in Italian, German and English-speaking countries"

Support with the conference organization "I periodici settecenteschi come luogo di comunicazione del sapere-un modello per il dialogo interculturale?" ,
University of Verona

Interdisciplinary Research Network in Translation Studies and Linguistics (InTraLing)
Responsible for compiling the bibliography for the website

Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo XVIII (SISSD)

International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS)

Graduate School for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Augsburg (GGS)

Research Network for the History of European Periodicals (RNHEP)
Responsible for the website and for communication

Universities of Augsburg/Trento
Scholarship in the doctoral program "Forms of Cultural Exchange"

Graduate School for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Augsburg
Funding for the congress trip to Florence (30.11.-02.12.2023)

University of Trento
Funding for the doctoral conference at the University of Trento (28-29.09.2023)

University of Augsburg
DAAD Prize for outstanding achievements by international students at German universities

Promotion of women, University of Augsburg
Funding for a research project to develop skills in employee leadership: Hiring and supervision of a Research Assistant to support the doctoral project.
support of the doctoral project

Promotion of early-career researchers and advancement of women, University of Augsburg
Financing of the congress trip to Buenos Aires and La Plata (28.-30.09.2022)

Graduate School for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Augsburg
Funding of a self-organized colloquium for students and doctoral candidates of Romance Studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg (05.05.2022)