Lingue e Linguaggi

Davide Passa
Sapienza Università di Roma
Italy

Davide Passa holds a master’s degree in Linguistic, Literary and Translation Studies (Sapienza Università di Rome), with a thesis titled “Lord Malquist & Mr Moon: translation and analysis of Tom Stoppard's only novel”. He has mainly worked on non-standard English varieties and their representation and translation in audiovisual and literary products. He is a PhD student in Studies in English literatures, cultures, language, and translation (Language and Translation Studies) at Sapienza University of Rome (in co-tutelle with University of Silesia in Katowice; tutors: Irene Ranzato, Adam Wojtaszek), where he has also been nominated Graduate Teaching Assistant in L-LIN/12 English language and translation. He is a member of AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica), EST (European Society for Translation Studies) and IATIS (International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies), as well as part of the Editorial Staff of the class-A journal Status Quaestionis. He has published articles on the fictional use of sociolects and their rendering in translation, with particular attention to fictional gayspeak and drag lingo. His PhD thesis focuses on the linguistic characterisation of fictional gay men in twenty-first century British drama. His main research interests are Sociolinguistics, (Audiovisual) Translation Studies, language and sexuality studies, corpus linguistics. He teaches foreign languages in various linguistic institutes, as well as English language and culture in secondary schools.