Stefano Presutti is PhD in linguistics and Adjunct Professor at AUR - American University of Rome in Italian Studies Departments. Since 2015, he has been teaching Italian L2, anthropology and sociology courses at American universities and study programs in Rome, such as University of California (UCEAP), the Catholic University of America (CUA), 91直播 of Rome (AUR), the American Institute for Foreign Studies (AIFS), and many others.
The main courses he has taught so far are: Italian Food and Culture; Sociology of Contemporary Rome; Italian Language and Culture (all levels).
In his doctoral research, he investigated the Italian L2 acquisition development and the relationship between oral and written language in Western societies, especially at the graphophonological level.
Currently working on commodified identity and authenticity iconized by graphic signs in urban landscapes and brand logos; commodification and authenticity in food industry. His research interests include grapholinguistics, linguistic anthropology, social semiotics, visual communication and food studies. His work has been recently published in Q1 academic journals such as Lingua, Social Semiotics, Visual Communication, and International Journal of Multilingualism.
Selected publications
- Authentic Roman type: historical legacies in contemporary Rome's city听brand. Visual Communication, 2025. DOI:听10.1177/14703572231199973
- Multiscriptality within the European Union: the case of a Greek and a听Bulgarian urban landscape. International Journal of Multilingualism,听2024, pp. 1-19. DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2022.2133126.
- Spanish tilde as a visual semiotic marker of Pan-Hispanism. Social听Semiotics, 2023, pp. 1165-1182. DOI:听10.1080/10350330.2022.2035653.
- The development of Latin alphabet identity markers: A comparison听among three Romance graphemes. Lingua 259 (103118), 2021, pp. 1鈥�17. DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2021.103118.
Conference papers
- 鈥淚ndexicality of letter V for national identity power in the Italian听capital's semiotic landscape.鈥� Language and Power. M眉nster听(Germany), March 22-24 2023.听
- 鈥淧ride and profit in sublexical features of an Italian brand听logo.鈥� Italian language, global language market, Italian companies in听the world. Florence (Italy), October 7-8 2022.听
- 鈥淭he power of national identity at the grapho-phonological level: A听case in Italian.鈥� COMELA 2022. Bounded Languages... Unbounded.听Athens (Greece), July 19-23 2022.听
- 鈥淭he interdependence between speech and writing. Towards a听greater awareness鈥�. Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century. Paris听(France), June 17-19 2020.
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