I am a Lecturer in Counselling & Psychotherapy and Programme Director of the MSc. in Counselling & Psychotherapy at the University of Birkbeck London, within the Psychosocial Department. I have previously worked for 17 years at King’s College London as a Senior Lecturer in Language & Intercultural Education and Programme Director at the Modern Language Centre, where I was responsible for staff development and intercultural training.
I work across disciplines and fields of study, moving across and within different territories and languages, playing with theory, practice, ideas and various lines of flight. I have an extensive teaching experience in Second Language Acquisition, Intercultural Studies and Applied Linguistics, with a particular focus on using cinema and literature in language teaching. I also collaborated with the University of Venice and of Rome 3 in Italy and worked for the Italian Cultural Institute in London where I co-founded Teacher Training for Italian as a foreign language.
I never stop studying and learning and I am currently completing a Doctorate in Education on language teachers’ professional development with a particular focus on identity and life narratives within an onto-ethical-epistemological framework broadly grounded on Posthumanism, New Materialism ad Autoethnography.
I am also an accredited Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, member of the BPC (British Psychoanalytic Association) and I work privately on a part-time basis as a psychotherapist and as a clinical supervisor in London.
I am delighted to be part of the CANI-NET network to think-be-with like-minded colleagues and friends.