Is lecturer in English Language and Translation at the University of Bari. Her current research interests include Translation Studies, audiovisual translation and the language of tourism, topics on which she has written extensively.

Her latest works are 'Audiovisual products, translanguaging and new teaching methodologies: the case of Tracy e Polpetta' in New Trends in Early Foreign Language Learning (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 2012); 'Selling Apulia on the Internet. The language of websites in promoting tourism in the third millennium' in Foreign Languages and Tourism (Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Opatija, 2012); 'Translating cultural references in tourism discourse: the case of the Apulian region' in Altre Modernità (2012); La traduzione audiovisiva nel terzo millennio (Franco Angeli, Milano, 2012).