NICOLETTA DI CIOLLA

LABORATORIO DI INGLESE SPECIALISTICO

THE COURSE
The Advanced English Lab is designed for students with an intermediate to advanced level of English. 
 
Ideally you should be at B2, but a B1+ paired with a hearty dose of good will and sustained effort can also lead to success in the course.
 
The  document The level of English you are expected to have on entry explains:
   a. what is expected of you in terms of English language competence;
   b. how you can audit your skills in English using the CEFR grid.
 
You will also find advice on resources you can use before the course starts in semester 2, should you feel that you need to strengthen certain areas and improve specific skills.

This laboratory uses English as a working language to explore issues linked to your main area of study.
You will be challenged to research, guide your learning process, and take responsibility for your own and your peers’ progress.
Specifically,  the Learning Objectives of the course are to:
• Engage with English as a working language in academic and professional contexts, using it as a tool for inquiry, collaboration, and presentation.
• Investigate and critically discuss issues related to gender equality and social sustainability, drawing on research and case studies you select.
• Design and produce academic outputs (reports, abstracts, presentations, project proposals) in English that reflect the methods and concerns of your field.
• Analyse and respond to texts in English, paying attention to tone, style, register, and nuance.
• Take responsibility for learning by leading discussions, sharing research, and contributing actively to a collaborative environment.

The learning objectives are aligned to the assessment strategies, which will require you to:
 • Present and defend a research-informed project in English with clarity, structure, and critical awareness.
• Produce a well-structured abstract and methodology in English, following academic conventions in your field.
• Contribute to peer learning by giving constructive feedback in English on the work of colleagues.

This is not a traditional language course. English here is the medium of exploration and expression: you will be using it to research, to argue, to collaborate, and to present your work.

 
 THE EXAM
 
The exam is structured around the analysis and discussion of a student-selected project relevant to their field of study. Students may choose between a language-based or research-based project.

• Language-Based Project: Students select and analyse a small selection of articles (from newspapers, academic works, or multimedia) on a topic related to their field.  The analysis will focus on linguistic aspects such as style, register, tone, rhetorical strategies, and visual features, with a view to reflect on how linguistic and stylistic choices orient the readers' perception of the topic.
• Research-Based Project: Students select a topic, formulate a research question, and present the results of their research during the oral exam.

The exam consists of two main components:

• Written Component: This section requires students to submit an abstract that summarises the key points of the project, as well as a methodology section that outlines the development of the presentation. The methodology should explain how sources were selected, what the initial hypothesis was, and describe the process of preparing the presentation, including analysis of the data found. The written portion must be submitted via Classroom no later than 12 noon on the day before the oral exam.
• Oral Component: the oral presentation of the project findings.

 
STUDENTS NOT ATTENDING THE COURSE (NON FREQUENTANTI) are advised to discuss their project proposal with me beforehand.

Please refer to the FAQs sheet for additional information about the exam.
 
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ACADEMIC YEAR 2025-26 TIMETABLE

LM 88   PROGETTAZIONE SOCIALE PER LA SOSTENIBILITÀ, L'INNOVAZIONE E L'INCLUSIONE DI GENERE 
a.y. 2025/2026, Semester One
 
Lessons for the Laboratorio di inglese specialistico will commence on Tuesday 23rd September 2025, and will take place in Aula B10 (Via Salaria 113), from  2:00pm to  4:00pm.
 
Linked to the course is a Google Classroom area, which you are all invited to sign up to using your university email account.  All resources in support of the course, plus all activities and all the slides for the lessons are posted there.
The code to access the Google Classroom for this course is 

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Servizio di tutorato e di supporto per studentesse e studenti con disabilità e disturbi dell'apprendimento (DSA)
 
Le studentesse e gli studenti iscritti al servizio DSA e disabilità devono fare richiesta di ausili e supporti specifici per sostenere gli esami , almeno dieci giorni prima della prova, individuando una email al Servizio disabilità e al Servizio DSA ai seguenti indirizzi email: servizio.disabilita@uniroma1.it per i servizi disabilità; servizio.dsa@uniroma1.it per i servizi DSA  e inserendo in copia conoscenza la prof.ssa Lucia D’Ambrosi all’indirizzo email dsa.coris@uniroma1.it 

Nel corpo del messaggio occorre riportare le seguenti informazioni: 
nome e cognome del docente; 
e-mail del docente;
nome dell’esame; data dell’esame;
supporti richiesti (tempo aggiuntivo e/o riduzione quantitativa e non qualitativa del compito; mappe concettuali, altro).
allegati (mappe concettuali e altro) se richiesti. 
 
Per la procedura d’iscrizione al servizio, le studentesse e gli studenti possono consultare i seguenti link:
Iscrizione al servizio disabilità
https://www.uniroma1.it/it/pagina/i-servizi-gli-studenti-con-disabilita
Iscrizione al servizio DSA
https://www.uniroma1.it/it/pagina/i-servizi-gli-studenti-con-dsa
Si ricorda inoltre che, all'interno del Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Ricerca Sociale, è attivo il servizio Coris per l’inclusione, uno sportello di tutorato metodologico dedicato a offrire supporto personalizzato a studentesse e studenti con disabilità e DSA per la preparazione degli esami e lo svolgimento della tesi di laurea. Per informazioni è possibile rivolgersi alla prof.ssa Lucia D’Ambrosi, lucia.dambrosi@uniroma1.it
 
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Sede: Via Salaria 113
Stanza: 180
email: nicoletta.diciolla@uniroma1.it
 
 
 

Attività di docenza:
Sapienza, Università di Roma, Settembre 2022 -
• Laboratorio di inglese specialistico – analisi testuale, analisi delle strategie di comunicazione nella stampa e nei media digitali, research methodology (corso di laurea specialistica in Media, Comunicazione sociale e Giornalismo; corso di laurea specialistica in Progettazione sociale per la sostenibilità, l’innovazione e l’inclusione di genere)

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 1991-2021
• Lingua italiana (acquisizione di competenze linguistiche in particolare attraverso l’analisi del testo) - livelli insegnati: da ab initio a C2.
• Letteratura italiana contemporanea (in particolare letteratura gialla e noir, con enfasi sulla potenziale funzione etica e sociale del genere).
• Letterature europee comparate.
• Linguistica Letteraria/Stilistica.
• traduzione inglese-italiano e viceversa (undergraduate e Master).
• Latino

Università degli Studi di Milano (Visiting Professor, 2011-2015)
• Metodologie di Ricerca nelle Humanities, corso di laurea specialistica in Lingue per la Comunicazione e Cooperazione internazionale.

CERTIFICAZIONI PROFESSIONALI
• Senior Fellow della Higher Education Academy, UK (HEA, 2015) – riconoscimento dell’alto livello di professionalità raggiunto nel campo dell’insegnamento, dell’innovazione pedagogica e del supporto alla crescita professionale del corpo docente (cf https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/fellowship/senior-fellowship)
• Certificazione di HE External Examiner rilasciata dalla Higher Education Academy, 2017 (abilitazione per l’attività di esaminatore esterno presso altre università del Regno Unito)
• Certificazione di competenza nel Senior Management Accademico (programma di formazione del senior management di Ateneo, organizzato dalla Manchester Metropolitan University, 2012)
• Certificazione di First Line Management (Institute of Leadership and Management, 2007)

PUBBLICAZIONI
2025
N. Di Ciolla e N. Vallorani, 'Inchiesta e controinformazione: Camilla Cederna, Pinelli, una finestra sulla strage (1971)’. In C. Milanesi (a cura di), Effetti reali. La non fiction tra Italia, Francia, Spagna e America Latina, Carabba. EAN 9788863447965

2022
N. Di Ciolla, ‘From engagement to empowerment - how a ‘souped-up” active learning can take student success further’. In Burns, T., Desire, J., Gordon, J., McDonald, P. and Sinfield, S. (eds.) (2022) Say it with a story. The #creativeHE Annual 2022. Creativity for Learning in Higher Education Community, #creativeHE, DOI: 10.25416/NTR.21806085
N. Di Ciolla, C. Nerantzi & G. Chatzidamianos, “Block ‘n’ flip. Boosting student engagement in the HE classroom”, https://doi.org/10.20919/OPXR1032/90. In Betts, T. and Oprandi, P. (eds.). (2022). 100 ideas for active learning. ALN and University of Sussex Library. https://doi.org/10.20919/OPXR1032

2021
N. Di Ciolla & S. Guarracino, “Writing the voice of ‘the other’: representations of migrant care workers in European narrative fiction.” in S. Bronwley and R. Abouddahab (eds), Figures of the Migrant: The Roles of Literature and the Arts in Representing Migration. London, Routledge, ISBN 9781032008806. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362734196_Writing_the_voice_of_...

Nerantzi, C., Chatzidamianos, G. & Di Ciolla, N. (2021) Reflections on block teaching at ManMet during the pandemic: three practitioners, three voices, in: Nerantzi, C., Chatzidamianos, G. & Di Ciolla, N. (2021) Block teaching: challenges and opportunities, Special Issue, Learning and Teaching in Action, pp.18-34, available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6645367

‘There’s No Place Like Rome: The Rhetoric of the Displaced Detective in Antonio Manzini’s Rocco Schiavone Stories.’, in N. Di Ciolla (ed). Detectives and the subversion of canons Fictions XX. Studi sulla narratività, Rome, Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, ISSN 1721-3673 / e-ISSN 1724-045X, pp 9-13 & 25-38.
• Intro available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362734344_Introduction_-_Detect...
• Article available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362734339_There's_No_Place_Like_Rome_The_Rhetoric_of_the_Displaced_Detective_in_Antonio_Manzini's_Rocco_Schiavone_Stories

2018:
N. Di Ciolla, A. Pasolini & N.Vallorani (eds) Raccontare il viaggio. Crimini di migrazione e narrazioni di resistenza. Milan: Mimesis, 2018, ISBN 9788857551005. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362734353_Raccontare_il_viaggio...

N.Di Ciolla & S. Guarracino, ‘Scrivere la voce dell’altra: migranti lavoratrici di cura narrate da autori residenti in Europa’, in Di Ciolla N. et al, Raccontare il viaggio. Crimini di migrazione e narrazioni di resistenza. Milan: Mimesis 2018, pp 95-124. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362734331_SCRIVERE_LA_VOCE_DELL'ALTRA_LA_VITA_DELLE_LAVORATRICI_DI_CURA_IMMIGRATE_NARRATA_DAL_DATORE_DI_LAVORO_EUROPEO
The violent mother in fact, theory, and fiction: literary representations of ‘mothers who damage’ and their relation to some theoretical models of motherhood (with Anna Pasolini). In Domestic Noir: The New Face of 21st Century Crime Fiction (London: Palgrave) ISBN 978-3-319-69337-8. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-69338-5_8. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324700378_The_Violent_Mother_in...

2017
‘Discursive strategies of genre hybridisation in Gianrico Carofiglio's essays and novels: towards a consensual language of truth and justice.’ In Monica Jansen & Maria Bonaria Urban (eds) L’Italia divisa: Narrazioni di una giustizia contestata. Forum Italicum, 51(1) pp. 45-60. DOI:10.1177/0014585816682484. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316112806_Discursive_strategies...'s_essays_and_novels_Towards_a_consensual_language_of_truth_and_justice

2016
‘Angelo o demone – La madre assassina come strumento di (in)giustizia in Il sospetto di Laura Grimaldi.’, in Daniele Croci; Emanuele Monegato; Anna Pasolini (eds) Cattivi. Cattivissimi. Cattivi? 2016, Milan: Mimesis. 978-88-5753-243-1. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362734515_Angelo_o_demone_La_ma...
2014
"Se il vero e' piu' nero del noir. Strategie per il risanamento dell'Italia" in E. Mondello (ed). RomaNoir 2012-13. Letteratura della crisi, letteratura del conflitto. Rome: Robin Edizioni, ISBN 978-88-6740-296-0, pp 75- 95. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362733985_Se_il_vero_e_piu_nero...'Italia

2013
N. Di Ciolla & N. Vallorani (eds). Giallo Popolare. Il poliziesco secondo Carlo Oliva. Milan: Mimesis. 978-88-5751-818-3

Il Dott. Agrò e l’endiadi: Strategie per l’apertura di un’opera. In L. Somigli (ed). Negli archivi e per le strade. Rome: Aracne. 2013. ISBN 978-88-548-5862-6. Pp. 485-501.

2012
“Crime Fact versus Crime Fiction: Alternative Strategies for the Mobilization of the ‘Ethic Minority’ in Twenty-First-Century Italy”. Italian Studies (ISSN: 0075-1634); Volume 67, No. 3, pp. 411-424(14); November 2012. DOI:10.1179/0075163412Z.00000000027
Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272311723_Crime_Fact_versus_Cri...'Ethic_Minority'_in_Twenty-First-Century_Italy

2010
N. Di Ciolla. Uncertain Justice: Crimes and Retributions in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN 1-4438-2420-8. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/50200427_Uncertain_justice_crim...
“Ritratti di borghesi con delitto”, in D. Vermandere, M. Jansen and I. Lanslots (eds.) Noir de Noir. Un’indagine pluridisciplinare. Brussels: Peter Lang, Moving Texts Series, 2010. p. 203-216. ISBN 978-90-5201-630-6.
“The Mythopoietic Function of the Noir: Gianrico Carofiglio towards a new mythology of justice”, in Italica 86:4 p 706-727 ISSN 0021-3020. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/50200429_The_mythopoietic_funct...

2009
" Bourgeois Portraits Inside-out. Family Groups in the Narrative Fiction of Gianni Farinetti”, in S. Lucamante (ed.) Italy and the Bourgeoisie: The Re-Thinking of a Class, Farleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 156-173 ISBN 978-0-8383-4202-3. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41536675_Bourgeois_portraits_in...
2008
M. Cicioni & N. Di Ciolla (eds). Differences, Deceits and Desires: Murder and Mayhem in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction. Monash Romance Series, Delaware University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-087413051-5
2007
'Crime and the Female Subject. Matricide, Filicide and the Law of the Father in Contemporary Italian Literature: the case of Laura Grimaldi and Barbara Garlaschelli', in A. Giorgio and J. Waters (eds) Women's Writing in Western Europe: Gender, Generation and Legacy. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. p.200-215. ISBN: 1-84718-165-1. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41536678_Crime_and_the_female_s...
"Perfecting females / Pursuing truths - Modernism, Scapigliatura and postmodern genre-crossing in Salvatori's noir Sublime anima di donna." in Gillian Ania and Ann Hallamore Caesar (eds) Trends in Contemporary Italian Narrative, 1980-2007. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. p 29-49. ISBN 1-84718-276-3. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41536665_Perfecting_females_pur...'s_noir_Sublime_anima_di_donna
'Roma in Noir - The Eternal City as Dystopia. Or Perfect Imperfection', in Romance Studies 25 (04), November 2007, p 297-309. ISSN 0263-9904. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41536680_Roma_in_Noir_-_The_Ete...
2005
"Morante translator of Katherine Mansfield", in S.Lucamante & S.Wood (eds), Under Arturo's Star: The Cultural Legacies of Elsa Morante, Purdue University Press, 2005, p 45-66, ISBN 10: 1-55753-407-1. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362734533_Morante_translator_of...
2004
"Society and family politics in Laura Grimaldi's trilogy Perfide storie di famiglia", in Spunti e Ricerche Volume 18 (2003), February/March 2004. p77-89. ISSN 08165432
2003
"Relative values - resisting desire and individuation in Barbara Garlaschelli's Alice nell'ombra and Sorelle.", in Rivista di Studi Italiani, 1, Vol. XXI, June 2003, pp. 119-133. ISSN 0821 3216
2002
"Mai sentite così bene' -L'universo femminile nei romanzi di Rossana Campo", in L. Rorato and S. Storchi (eds), Da Calvino agli ipertesti: il postmodernismo nella narrativa italiana, Florence, Cesati, 2002, p169-176. ISBN 88-7667-134-X. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41536666_Mai_sentite_cosi_bene_l'universo_femminile_nei_romanzi_di_Rossana_Campo
2001
"Value(s) (f)or money? Modes and motives of crime in contemporary Italian fiction", New Comparison, 32, 2001, p89-107. ISSN 0950-5814. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/27400036_Values_for_money_Modes...
2000
"A Child with a View: Childhood in Mansfield and Morante", in New Comparison, 27/28, 2000, p239-258.
"Per una tipologia di racconto di iniziazione: The Garden Party e Via dell'Angelo", in Narrativa, Université Paris X, January 2000.
Francesca Duranti, Left-handed Dreams, edited with an introduction and notes by N. Di Ciolla, Market Harborough: Troubador, 2000.
1999
"Anima Parvuli: A Child's Destiny according to Susanna Tamaro", in Forum Italicum, SUNY, Fall 1999, p 459-484.
"Giovani pulp crescono. Il percorso della narrativa italiana degli anni '90 nell'opera di Rossana Campo", in Narrativa, n. 16, Université Paris X, Summer 1999, p 167- 181. ISSN 1166-3243
"Through Girls' Eyes: Young Females' Perspectives in Katherine Mansfield and Elsa Morante", in AUMLA, November 1999, p 97-119. DOI:10.1179/aulla.92.1.005. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270692858_Through_girls'_eyes_Young_female_perspectives_in_Katherine_Mansfield_and_Elsa_Morante

TRADUZIONI
Responsabile per le traduzioni per l’agenzia letteraria ErgoSum (http://www.ergosum-agency.com/team/), traduttore e editor.
Traduzioni italiano- inglese:

In corso di pubblicazione:
P. Masini, Pietro Nardi. Make yourselves comfortable, transl. by Nicoletta Di Ciolla. Antiga Edizioni, 2025,
F. Trentini (a cura di), Paper Politics: The Italian Communist Party in the Posters of the Salce Collection, 1945–1962. Antiga Edizioni
Vittorio Sella, The Shot of Time: Vittorio Sella, Photographer and his Archive, Fondazione Sella

• 2025
o Painted Gold. El Greco and Art between Crete and Venice, catalogo della mostra, Venezia, Palazzo Ducale, 30 aprile-29 settembre 2025 (https://palazzoducale.visitmuve.it/en/mostre-en/mostre-in-corso-en/exhib...)
o F. Dell’Agnese e G.M. Villalta, Elio e Stefano Ciol, Into the Light, transl. by Nicoletta Di Ciolla. Antiga Edizioni 2025, ISBN 978-88-8435-528-7
o Zoran Mušič. The Zurich Room, the Works, the Atelier, catalogo della mostra, Gorizia Palazzo Attems, 25 maggio- 31 ottobre 2025 (https://www.go2025.eu/en/whats-up/events/zoran-music-the-zurich-room-the...)

• 2024:
o Danilo Zatta, The 10 Rules of Highly Effective Pricing. Transl by Nicoletta Di Ciolla. Wiley, 2024, ISBN 978-1394195763

• Biografie corporative (http://www.ergosum-agency.com/#cat:biography):

o AA.VV. Cambrex Profarmaco – A question of chemistry.Transl by Nicoletta Di Ciolla. Ergo Sum Agency, 2022.
o Daniele Cardoso con Pamela Ferlin, Active People. Testimonies from key players in the Italian Chemical Pharmaceutical Industry. Transl by Nicoletta Di Ciolla. Advitech Advisory and Technology SA, 2022, ISBN 978-2-9701295-7-8
o N. Branca di Romanico (a cura di), Branca. On the Wings of Excellence. Transl by Nicoletta Di Ciolla. Milano: Rizzoli, 2015 (1° Premio Omi 2016)
o Barbara De Rigo (a cura di), IntereSting. Anche gli occhiali hanno un’anima. Transl by Nicoletta Di Ciolla. Ergo Sum Agency, 2015 (http://www.ergosum-agency.com/portfolio/desk-concept/)

• Scienza e divulgazione:
o Ergo Sum Agency, Starry Skies over the Dolomites, Transl by Nicoletta Di Ciolla.Cooperativa di Cortina; 1 edition (2016) (http://www.ergosum-agency.com/#cat:astronomia)

• Narrativa:
o Hugo Cimenti, with Pamela Ferlin, Two Suitcases Full of Nothing. Transl by Sharon Wood and Nicoletta Di Ciolla. Antiga Edizioni, 2023. ISBN 978-8884353832.
o Francesca Duranti, Left Handed Dreams (traduzione, introduzione e note di Nicoletta Di Ciolla), Troubador, 2012 (2nd ed).

• Testi tecnici
o Michele Marchesi, Object-Oriented Programming with Small Talk V, (translated by Nicoletta Di Ciolla), Prentice Hall, 1994 https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10402806?q&versionId=45012924)

ATTIVITA’ EDITORIALI
• Membro del comitato editoriale della serie Fantascienza e Società (Milano: Mimesis)
• Condirettore (con Nicoletta Vallorani) della serie di studi letterari DeGenere (Milano: Mimesis)
• Membro del comitato scientifico della rivista Altre Modernità, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano
• Associate Editor della rivista accademica Italian Cultural Studies (fino a dicembre 2021)
• Responsabile per la sezione recensioni per le riviste accademiche Italian Studies e Italian Cultural Studies (fino a dicembre 2021)
• Peer reviewer per le riviste Annali d’Italianistica, Forum Italicum, Italian Cultural Studies, Textus (Università degli Studi di Milano), Other Modernities e New Comparison.