NITTI PAOLO

Paolo Nitti holds a PhD in Law and Human Sciences from the University of Insubria, where he is currently a Researcher and teaches Cognitive Linguistics, Language Education, and Gender Studies. His main research interests include educational linguistics, sexist language use, the acquisition and teaching of Italian as a first and second language (L1/L2), and literacy development.
From 2018 to 2023, he served as Director of the First-Level Master's Degree Programme in New Language Teaching at eCampus University. Since 2024, he has been Coordinator of the Second-Level Master's Degree Programme in Literacy Education and Teaching Italian as a Second Language at the University of Insubria. Since 2024, he has also served as Vice-Chair of the Master's Degree Programme in Languages and Competences for Education at the University of Insubria.
An active member of the Italian Linguistic Society (Società di Linguistica Italiana) and the Society of Phraseology and Paremiology (Società di Fraseologia e Paremiologia), he has been Scientific Director of the Intercultural Centre of the City of Turin since 2015. Since 2019, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Lingua e Testi di Oggi (LTO) and as Co-Editor-in-Chief, together with Professor Carmela Scala, of the Journal of Language Teaching and Technology (LTT).
Since 2024, he has been Secretary of the Gruppo di Intervento e Studio nel Campo dell’Educazione Linguistica (GISCEL)-Sezione Lombardia.
His recent publications include L'insulto. La lingua dello scherzo, la lingua dell'odio (Cesati, 2021), Insegnare italiano nella classe plurilingue (La Scuola, 2022), and Linguistica popolare e ideologia linguistica (AlboVersorio, 2023).