STURIALE MASSIMO

CURRENT POSITION
2015-: Associate Professor of “English Language and Translation”
EDUCATION
1995: Degree in “Foreign Languages and Literatures”: summa cum laude, University of Catania
1997: MA in “Applied Linguistics”, University of Sheffield, UK
2002: PhD in “English Linguistics”, University of Catania
2002: Research Fellow in “English Linguistics”, University of Catania
GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
1997-2000: 3 year PhD scholarship, University of Catania
2002-2003: Postgraduate research fellowship of the University of Catania. Research title: “Early Modern English: Phrasal verbs and adverbial locutions”
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2002-2005: Fixed-term Lecturer of “English Language and Translation”
2005-2014: Researcher of “English Language and Translation”
INSTITUTIONAL OFFICES
2018-present: Head of the Degree course in Linguistic and Intercultural Mediation, University of Catania
2018-present: Chair of the CLIL and Lifelong learning committee (Ragusa)
2017-present: Member of the Board of AIA, the Italian Society of English Studies where he serves as the Society Treasurer and Secretary
2016-2018: Vice Head of the School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Catania
2008-2013: Member of the PhD programme in “English and Anglo-American Studies”, later in “Modern Philology”, University of Catania
2013-2017: Member of the joint PhD programme in “Literary, linguistic and philological studies”, Catania and Palermo
2017-present: Member of the PhD programme in “Interpreting sciences”, University of Catania
Erasmus coordinator: Ghent (B); Konin (PL); Bydgoszcz (PL), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (E); Lisbon (P); Murcia (E); Santiago de Compostela (E); Valencia (E), Valladolid (E)
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2018-2019: University of Catania. Scientific Coordinator for the project: Pronouncing dictionaries and prescriptivism: Past and present
2017-2018: University of Catania. Scientific Coordinator for the project: Mediatization and sociolinguistic changes
2017-2019: University of Catania. Participant in the “PROMETEO Linea 3” project “Languages, Texts and Power” (A8722222453). P.I. Prof. G. Traina
2014-2016: University of Catania. Participant in the FIR project "Intellectual Ulyssisism Between the 19th and the 21st Centuries" (2014 - C76ADB). P.I. Prof. N. Zago
2010-2011: University of Catania. Scientific Coordinator for the project: Prescriptivism and Pronouncing Dictionaries: Past and Present
2009: Italian Ministry of University and Research. Participant in the PRIN project (2009WFSAAK) Within and Across the Borders: Usage and Norm in Western European Languages. P.I.: Prof. G. Iamartino (University of Milan)
2007: Italian Ministry of University and Research. Participant in the PRIN project Dictionaries, Manuals and Words as Mirrors of Languages, Cultures and Ideologies. P.I. Prof. G. Iamartino (University of Milan). Local research unit coordinator (University of Catania): Prof. C. Nocera
2007: University of Catania. Participant in the project Linguistic, Cultural and Ideological Transformations: Diachronic and Synchronic Aspects. Scientific Coordinator: Dr. I. Halliday (University of Catania)
2006: University of Catania. Scientific Coordinator for the project 18th-Century English Grammars and Dictionaries
2005: University of Catania. Scientific Coordinator for the project ‘Enchained syllables’: 18th-Century Pronouncing Dictionaries
2003: University of Catania. Participant in the project Standard English: Then and Now. P.I. Prof. C. Nocera
2001: University of Catania. Participant in the project 16th-Century Translators: G. Pettie and A. Cooke”. Coordinator Prof. C. Nocera
1998-2000: Italian Ministry of University and Research. Participant in the PRIN project Aspects of Variation in Linguistic Modality in Late Middle and Early Modern English. P.I. Prof. D. Hart (University of Rome 3). Local research unit coordinator (University of Catania): Prof. C. Nocera
1998: University of Catania. Participant in the project Elizabethan Translations: Linguistic and Cultural Aspects. P.I Prof. C. Nocera
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS: ORGANISATION
2022 (Ragusa, 5-7 May): International Conference L-ModE7 “Myth-making and myth-busting in and about Late Modern English”. Chair of the Organising and Scientific Committees
2021 (Vigo, Spain, 23-25): 6th Prescriptivism Conference “Modelling Prescriptivism: Language, Literature, and Speech Communities”. Member of the International Scientific Committee
2021 (Catania/Ragusa, 16-18 September 2021): National Conference AIA30 “Experiment and innovation: branching forwards and backwards”. Member of the Organising and Scientific Committees
2019 (Ragusa, 16-18 October): National Conference “Languages of power”. Member of the Organising and Scientific Committees
2018-2019 (Ragusa, October-April): Teacher training course “Learning, teaching and using English today: methodological proposals” (SOFIA ID 18697). Chair of the Organising and Scientific Committees

2017 (Ragusa, 19-20 October): International Conference, Ragusa and Montalbano: Translating Camilleri’s regionalised voices in AVT. Co-chair, with G. Traina (Catania), of the Organising and Scientific Committees
2016 (Ragusa, 2-3 May): AIA Seminar “Old and New Media: Linguistic Insights”. Co-chair, with the AIA board, of the Organising and Scientific Committees
2015 (Ragusa, 22-24 October): Chair of SLIN17 “Labelling English, English Labelled: From the 9th Century to Late Modern Times”. Chair of the Organising and Scientific Committees
2013 (Ragusa, 24-25 October): International Colloquium “Translation: An Elizabethan Art – Revisited”. Co-chair, with G. Iamartino (Milan) of the Organising and Scientific Committees
2013 (Bergamo, 28-30 August): LModE5 International Conference on Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English. Member of the Scientific Committee. Chair: Prof. M. Dossena
2012 (Ragusa, 18-20 October): PRIN Conference (PRIN 2009WFSAAK) Norm and Usage in Bilingual Lexicography: 16th - 21st century. Co-chair, with N. Minerva (Catania), of the Organising and Scientific Committees
2012 (Istanbul, 4-8 September): Co-convenor of the ESSE11 Seminar (Bogazici University, Istanbul) “Towards a History of the English Normative Tradition”. Chairs: J. C. Beal (Sheffield); G. Iamartino (Milan) and M. Sturiale
2010 (Turin, 24-28 August): Co-convenor of the ESSE10 Seminar (Turin) “Prescriptivism and Pronouncing Dictionaries: Past and Present”. Chairs: J. C. Beal (Sheffield) and M. Sturiale
2009 (Toronto, 17-19 August): The Third International Conference on “Prescriptivism and Patriotism”. Member of the Organising and Scientific Committees.
2009 (Ragusa, 18 March): Seminar on “New Technologies and English Language Teaching”. Chair of the Organising and Scientific Committees
2008 (Ragusa, 22-23 May) International Colloquium on “Words in Time”. Chair of the Organising and Scientific Committees
2006 (Ragusa, 20-22 April): The Second International Conference on “Perspectives on Prescriptivism”. Co-chair, with J. Beal (Sheffield), of the Organising and Scientific Committees
LECTURES AND SEMINARS
Keynote at Conferences
IASEMS (Florence, 2018)
Invited lecturer and speaker at the following universities: Bergamo (2019), Milan (2020, 2017 and 2014), Palermo (2009 and 2018), Pisa (2019 and 2020), Rome (2019 and 2020)
Visiting professor (Erasmus+)
University of Murcia (E) 2016 and 2017; Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2018
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Phd thesis supervisor: M. C. Sciacco (2015); C. A. Gebbia (2020), R. Spadaro (current)
External examiner in the following PhD board: University of Palermo, PhD in Humanities (2011 and 2013); University of Messina, PhD in Anthropology and Linguistics (2012); University of Milan, PhD in Linguistic, literary and intercultural studies (2018)
OTHER
2017 – present: Associazione Italiana di Anglistica Secretary and Treasurer
BOOK SERIES
English library: the linguistics bookshelf. Siké Edizioni, Leonforte (En). General editors: G. Iamartino and M. Sturiale
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Donne nella storia. Aracne, Rome. General editor: A. Cagnolati
Estuary. Le varianri regionali e sociali nel mondo. Bulzoni, Rome. General editor: I. Ranzato
In-between spaces: le scritture migranti e la scrittura come migrazione. Edizioni Sinestesie, Avellino. General editors: N. Arrigo, A. Bonomo, K. Chircop
Textus. English Studies in Italy. ISSN 1824-3967
Illuminazioni. ISSN 2037-609X
PEER-REVIEWING AND EVALUATION
Cambridge University Press
Historiographia Linguistica
Language and History
English Language and Linguistics
Transactions of the Philological Society
Altre Modernità
Iperstoria

RESEARCH
Massimo Sturiale has carried out research in several areas of English linguistics, e.g., English phonology, linguistic prescriptivism, language attitudes, English lexicography and English historical (socio)linguistics. His research and interest in English phonology, and particularly in Received Pronunciation, have made significant contribution to the field of recent sound changes (2002) and their codification in pronouncing and ELT monolingual dictionaries (2011 and 2012). Moreover, attitudes to language changes and linguistic prescriptivism (2012) have been investigated in new media such as YouTube (2014) and, from a diachronic perspective, in nineteenth-century newspapers (Sturiale 2018, 2016, 2016b and 2014). His research on speakers’ attitudes towards phonological changes and language variation is closely linked to his studies on the influence of eighteenth-century phoneticians and the making of a standard accent of English on both sides of the Atlantic (2006 and 2008) and the rise of ‘accentism’ (2019). His publications are mainly international, with several contributions in first rate scientific journals (fascia A). He has received excellent evaluations for his research from VQR 2011-2014. Full list of publications: http://www.sdslingue.unict.it/docenti/massimo.sturiale