CECILIA BOGGIO
ESOMAS Department
School of Management and Economics
Università di Torino
+39 011 6706102; [email protected]
http://web.econ.unito.it/gma/boggio/cecilia.html
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Metaphor Theory and Analysis
- Language and Gender
- Multimodality (with a focus on Corporate Communication)
- English as a Lingua Franca in Economics and Finance
- English as a Medium of Instruction
UNIVERSITY POSITIONS & APPOINTMENTS
Senior Lecturer (Ricercatore Confermato) of English Language and Applied Linguistics,
ESOMAS Department, School of Management and Economics, Università di Torino (Italy),
2006-present.
Adjunct Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics, ESOMAS Department, School
of Management and Economics, Università di Torino (Italy), 2005-2006.
Lecturer of Cinema, Comparative Literature and Italian, University of Iowa, 2004-2005.
Adjunct Professor of Film Studies, Department of Communication and Media Studies, Università
Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy), Fall 2004, Summer 2005, Spring 2006.
Assistant Lecturer of Italian, Department of French and Italian, University of Southern California,
1995-2003.
AFFILIATIONS
CeRP (Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies), Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino,
Italy.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, 2003.
Foreign Language Teaching Training Program, USC Language Academy, University of Southern
California, 1995.
B.A., English, Università di Torino (Italy), 1995.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
Ateneo di Torino-Compagnia di San Paolo Grant on “English in Italy: Linguistic, Educational
and Professional Challenges”, 2013-2016 (team member).
Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, University of Southern California, 2003.
College Merit Award, University of Southern California, 2001-2002.
Getty Research Institute Dissertation Workshop, April 2001.
Oakley Dissertation Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2000-2001.
Josephine De Kármán National Fellowship in the Humanities, 2000.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Southern California, 2000.
PUBLICATIONS
Authored Books
Percorsi: l’italiano attraverso la lingua e la cultura - Student Activities Manual 3/e, with Marina
de Fazio. Upper Saddle River: Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2014.
Percorsi: l’italiano attraverso la lingua e la cultura - Student Activities Manual 2/e. Upper
Saddle River: Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2011.
Multimodal Business and Economics, with Sandra Campagna. Milano: LED, 2009.
Percorsi: l’italiano attraverso la lingua e la cultura - Student Activities Manual. Upper Saddle
River: Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2007.
Refereed Articles & Book Chapters
Praten over pensioen: communicatie over financiële zaken nu en later (forthcoming), with José
Sanders, Kobie van Krieken, Laura Nijenhuis and Henriette Prast. In Studies in Taalbeheersing
(Studies in Discourse). Assen: Van Gorcum.
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Automobile Advertising for Cultural Elites: a Multimodal Analysis (2010). In Discourse,
Identities and Genres in Corporate Communication, eds. Paola Evangelisti Allori and Giuliana
Garzone. Bern: Peter Lang; pp. 145-161.
Here, There and Everywhere: A Journey into the Hybrid Identity of a Global Athlete (2009).
Textus, Vol. 1; pp. 163-178.
On Target: The Migration of Print Advertisements from People to The New Yorker (2009). In
Forms of Migration/Migration of Forms, eds. Domenico Torretta, Marina Dossena and
Annamaria Sportelli. Bari: Progedit; pp. 387-397.
Black Shirts/Black Skins: Fascist Italy’s Colonial Anxieties and Lo squadrone bianco (2003).
In A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present,
ed. Patrizia Palumbo. Berkeley: University of California Press; pp. 279-298.
Book reviews
Broken Time, Fragmented Space: A Cultural Map for Postwar Italy by Anna Maria Torriglia
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002). Journal of Modern History, vol. 77, n. 2, June
2005; pp. 457-459.
Translations
Italian translation of “The Domestication of Derrida” by W. Godzich; “Deconstruction in
America: An Interview with Jacques Derrida” by J. Creech, P. Kamuf, J. Todd; “The Discipline
of Deconstruction” by J. Nealon for the volume Decostruzione e/è America, Andrea Carosso, ed.
Torino: Tirrenia Stampatori, 1994.
WORKING PAPERS
Seven Ways to Knit Your Portfolio: Is Investor Communication Neutral?, with Elsa Fornero,
Henriette Prast, and José Sanders, WP CeRP 140/14.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Pensi che un bond sia un agente segreto? English as a Lingua-Not-So-Franca in Italian Financial
Communication [article]
English in Italy: Linguistic, Educational and Professional Challenges, co-edited with Alessandra
Molino [edited book]
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MEDIA COVERAGE AND PUBLIC APPEARANCES
Panelist on “Giovani, donne e merito: un’opportunità per il paese,” a roundtable discussion
organized by Professor Elsa Fornero (former Welfare and Equal Opportunities Minister) and
chaired by Vera Schiavazzi (journalist, La Repubblica). Valorizzare la diversità di genere,
Università di Torino, School of Management and Economics, November 21, 2014.
In Borsa si parla un linguaggio pensato da uomini. La Stampa, November 25, 2014.
INVITED LECTURES & CONFERENCE PAPERS
Invited Lectures
The Gender Bias in Financial Communication. Summer School on Gender Economics and
Society, ITCILO Campus, Torino (Italy), July 9, 2015.
Seven Ways to Knit Your Portfolio: Is Investor Communication Neutral? Turin English
Language and Linguistics Seminars (TELLS), Università di Torino (Italy), May 18, 2015.
Framing in Personal Finance Education: Analyzing Metaphors and Hypothesizing Effects (with
José Sanders). Language in Mind and Society Conference, Radboud University Nijemegen (The
Netherlands), December 16, 2014.
Metaphor in Investment Education. Language in Mind and Society Conference, Radboud
University Nijemegen, The Netherlands, December 15, 2014.
Multimodality in Economic Discourse (with Sandra Campagna). International Symposium on
Multimodal Approaches to Communication, Università di Verona, May 2009.
Conference Papers
Why Can’t Women Knit their Portfolio? Gender and the Language of Investor Communication.
5th Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (ALAPP) Conference, Università degli Studi di
Milano (Milan, Italy), November 5-7, 2015.
“Framing Investor Communication: Is the Stock Market a Battlefield or Ocean Water?” XXVII
Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (AIA) Conference, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico
II/ Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale (Naples, Italy), September10-12, 2015.
“Seven Ways to Knit Your Portfolio: Is Investor Communication Neutral?” 48th British
Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Annual Meeting (Breaking Theory: New Directions in
Applied Linguistics), Aston University (Birmingham, UK), September 3-5, 2015.
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“Seven Ways to Knit Your Portfolio: Is Investor Communication Neutral?” iMean4@Warwick
(Language and Impact), University of Warwick (Coventry, UK), April 9-11, 2015.
“Seven Ways to Knit Your Portfolio: Is Investor Communication Neutral?” CINTIA Second
Conference, CeRP/Collegio Carlo Alberto (Torino, Italy), November 24-25, 2015.
“Seven Ways to Knit Your Portfolio: Is Investor Communication Neutral?” Simon Society
Workshop on Multidimensional Subjective Well-Being, Torino (Italy), October 30-31, 2014.
“Seven Ways to Knit Your Portfolio: Is Investor Communication Neutral?” Workshop on Gender
Issues in Experimental Economics, University of Alicante (Spain), October 27-28, 2014.
“Seven Ways to Knit Your Portfolio: Is Investor Communication Neutral?” 2014 Labsi
Workshop on Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Università di Siena (Italy), September 1213, 2014.
“H.J. Heinz Company Annual Reports 2000-2009: Use or Abuse of Multimodality?” 5th
International Conference on Discourse, Communication and Enterprise (DICOEN), Università
degli Studi di Milano, September 24-26, 2009.
“On Target: the Migration of Print Advertisements from People to The New Yorker.” XXIII
Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (AIA) Conference, Bari, September 20-22, 2007.
“Automobile Advertising for Cultural Elites: a Multimodal Analysis.” Conference on
Discourse and Identity in Specialized Communication, Palazzo Feltrinelli (Gargnano del Garda),
June 25-26, 2007.
PANELS ORGANIZED AT CONFERENCES
Co-organizer (with José Sanders, Radboud University Nijmegen, and Henriëtte Prast, Tilburg
University) of the panel “Gender, Finance and Communication.” Language in Mind and Society
Conference, Radboud University Nijemegen, The Netherlands, December 15-16, 2014.
Organizer of the panel “È sbocciato il benessere! – The Transformation of Italian Culture in the
Years of the Economic Boom.” American Association of Italian Studies Annual Conference,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 14-17, 2005.
Co-organizer (with Clarissa Clò, San Diego State University) of the panel “Imaging Africa,
Imagining Italy.” American Association of Italian Studies Annual Conference, University of
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 29-May 2, 2004.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Università di Torino
School of Management and Economics:
Undergraduate courses:
- The Global Company: New Challenges, New Competencies (annual course, 2012-13, 2013-14,
2014-15, 2015-16)
- Global Views on Business and Economics (annual course, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012)
- Business Culture: An American Perspective (annual course, 2007-2008, 2008-2009).
- Global Society and Language Trends (annual course, 2007-2008, 2008-2009).
- The Language and Culture of Corporate America (annual course, 2005-2006, 2006-2007).
- What is Global English? (annual course 2005-2006, 2006-2007).
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Department of Communication and Media Studies:
Undergraduate courses:
- Realities and Realisms in Italian Cinema, Spring 2006.
Graduate courses:
- Introduction to Film Theory, Fall 2003.
- Italian Cinema from Realism to Neorealism, Summer 2005.
University of Iowa
Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature:
Undergraduate courses:
- “Introduction to Critical Reading and Viewing” (team taught with Sabine Gölz), Fall 2004.
- “Italian Cinema from Neorealism to the Economic Boom,” Spring 2005.
Department of French and Italian:
Graduate courses:
- Master level independent study on the literature of the Italian Giovani Cannibali, Spring 2004.
Undergraduate courses:
- Intermediate Italian I, Fall 2004.
- Intermediate Italian II, Spring 2004, Spring 2005.
- Intensive Elementary Italian, Spring 2004.
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University of Southern California
Graduate Courses:
- Intensive course in Reading and Translating Italian, Department of French and Italian, Summer
1998.
Undergraduate courses:
-Elementary, intermediate and advanced Italian, Department of French and Italian, 1995-1998;
2002-3.
-USC Italian Summer Program, Verona, Italy, Summer 1997.
Teaching Assistant:
-“Women Writers in Europe and America” (Prof. Margaret Rosenthal), Department of
Comparative Literature, Fall 1998 and Spring 2000.
-“Cultures of the Americas” (Prof. Roberto Diaz), Department of Comparative Literature, Spring
1999 and Fall 1999.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Coordinator of the Language Lab, School of Management and Economics, Università di Torino,
2013-present.
Co-organizer, Fourth Annual Comparative Literature Symposium - “Psychoanalysis &
Difference,” University of Southern California, March 2001.
Co-organizer of the Third Annual Comparative Literature Symposium - “Vision/Language,”
University of Southern California, April 2000.
Assistant editor for the volume Decostruzione e/è America, Andrea Carosso, ed. Torino: Tirrenia
Stampatori, 1994.
MEMBER: MLA (Modern Language Association), ABC (Association for Business
Communication), BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics), AIA (Associazione
Italiana di Anglistica), ESSE (European Society for the Study of English).
UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE & COMMITTEE EXPERIENCE
Member of Selection Committee, Study Abroad Program, School of Management and
Economics, Università di Torino, 2015.
Foreign Languages Representative, Special Committee on Undergraduate and Graduate Degree
Programs Revision, ESOMAS Department, School of Management and Economics, Università di
Torino, October 2012-February 2013.
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Representative of Assistant Professors, School of Management and Economics, Università di
Torino October 2010-September 2012.
Head of Selection Committee, Study Abroad Program, School of Management and Economics,
Università di Torino, 2006-2010.
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