Excellence in Teaching Award, 2019.

Flipped Classroom Grant, 2018.

Summer School Scholarship, 2017.

Postgraduate Publication Grant, 2015.

Postgraduate Teaching Internship Scheme, 2013.

I launched the UWA Spanish Major in 2017 and the UWA Spanish Minor in 2020. I have designed all of the Spanish units available at UWA, and I teach and coordinate many of them every semester. Currently, these are the only Major and Minor available to students in Western Australia. 

I am the UWA Director of Graduate Translation Studies and I teach and coordinate several units of the Master of Translation Studies and Graduate Certificate in Translation Studies, which are offered across eight different languages.

I teach by implementing an innovative research-driven approach and creating networks among UWA and other national and international universities, and between UWA and the wider Western Australian community. 

I have been at UWA since 2011 and my main areas of interest are Translation Studies and Second Language Teaching.

Spanish Studies (convenor)

Graduate Translation Studies (director)
Italian Studies (lecturer and translator)

SPAN: For the past few years I have been working closely with lecturers and professors from University of Sydney and Flinders University on developing and implementing a method called Flourishing in a Second Language FL2. This is an innovative approach to L2 teaching and learning cosisting of specifically devised resources embedded in L2 courses. I have translated activities into Spanish, used them in my lessons at UWA and studying the results of different implementations. There is a peer-reviewed article on the (2018). A new implementation and a comparison with Italian trials has been studied and is going to be published imminently (2022). 

TRANS: I have been working on translating as many different genres as possible to offer more to my students. 

Flipped Classroom Grant, 2018.

Summer School Scholarship, 2017.

Postgraduate Publication Grant, 2015.

Postgraduate Teaching Internship Scheme, 2013.

TRANSLATION:  I have worked on the bilingual edition of Il bambino dai capelli di zucchero / Sugar-Haired Boy, a children's book published by Errekappa edizioni.  

SPAN: I am leading research on positive psychology in Spanish lessons in Australian universities. 

Spanish Studies

Translation Studies

Second language Acquisition

Italian Studies

English (Australian variety)

Spanish (Castellano)

Italian