Research

Research Interests

  • Mycenaean Greek, Aegean Scripts, Historical Phonology, Etymology, Psycholinguistics.

Research Experience

  • September 2022–Present: Member of the Seminario Permanente sul Messapico (SPeM) research group on the Messapic language – Alteritas Association.
  • Winter 2021–Present: Research Assistant to Prof. David Goldstein, UCLA, Department of Linguistics.

Additional Study

 

  • AY 2024/2025: Regular Member Program — American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
  • July 2024: 6th Crete Summer School of Linguistics — University of Crete, Rethymnon.
  • Winter 2024: Graduate Certificate in Classics — Department of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles.
  • July 2023: 5th Crete Summer School of Linguistics — University of Crete, Rethymnon.
  • September 2022: International Training School “The Epigraphic Text: From Context to Meaning” – Alteritas Association, University of Verona, University of Roma “Tor Vergata”, Northeast University of Changun, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
  • 2019–2020: Visiting MA student, Erasmus+ program, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
  • 2017–2018: Visiting BA student, Erasmus+ program, University College London (UCL)

Publications

Articles

  • 2023. Syllabification-driven changes in Mycenaean: The case of liquid vocalization. In David M. Goldstein, Stephanie W. Jamison, and Anthony D. Yates (eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 135–55. Hamburg: Buske.
  • 2021a. La vocalización de las sonantes silábicas indoeuropeas en micénico. In Laura Camino Plaza et al. (eds.), Scripta manent. Nuevas miradas sobre los estudios clásicos y su tradición, 103-14. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
  • 2021b. Were Mycenaean Tables Three-Footed? Etymological, Iconographical, Archaeological, and Contextual Remarks. In Rachele Pierini, Alberto Bernabé, and Marco Ercoles (eds.), Thronos. Historical Grammar of Furniture in Mycenaean and Beyond, 65-74. Pàtron, Bologna.

Thesis

  • 2020: Scribal errors in Linear B texts: genesis and typology between linguistic competence and productional context (Ita.: Gli errori scribali nei testi in Lineare B: genesi e tipologia tra competenza linguistica e contesto redazionale) – MA thesis. Advisors: Rachele Pierini, Eugenio Ramón Luján Martínez, Camillo Neri.
  • 2018: Studies on the Vocalic Resonants in Mycenaean and Alphabetic Greek (Ita.: Ricerche sulle sonanti vocalizzate nel miceneo e nel greco alfabetico) – BA thesis. Advisors: Rachele Pierini, Camillo Neri.

Presentations

  • June 2024: with Michele Bianconi and Marta Capano, Nouvelles considérations sur le système vocalique du messapien, International Colloquium Messapie et messapien: pour un nouveau bilan archéologique, épigraphique et linguistique, Sorbonne Université.
  • September 2023: with Marta Capano, Michele Bianconi, and Simona Marchesini, Sound change and morphological analogy in a Trümmersprache: The case of Messapic, in the 2023 Arbeitstagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft “Sound change and morphological analogy” (IG-AT2023), University of Cologne.
  • November 2022: Mycenaean or/ro story: Directionality of PIE liquid vocalization in Mycenaean Greek, 33rd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (WeCIEC 33), University of California, Los Angeles.
  • June 2022: Mycenaean Slips: A psycholinguistic analysis of scribal errors on the Linear B tablets, in the 10th International Colloquium of Ancient Greek Linguistics (ICAGL 10), Madrid.
  • March 2022: PIE *tr̥-: Evidence from Mycenaean Greek Compounds, in the 6th Indo-European Research Colloquium (IERC 6), Jena.
  • March 2020: La vocalización de las sonantes indoeuropeas en micénico, 8th Ganimedes Congress, held in Santiago de Compostela.

Courses

  • Summer 2024: Teaching Assistant in Introduction to the Study of Language (Ling 1), UCLA – Course Coordinator: Jake Aziz.
  • Summer 2023: Instructor in Origins and Nature of English Vocabulary (Classics 185).
  • Spring 2023: Teaching Assistant in Elementary Latin (Latin 2 Hybrid), UCLA – Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Richard Ellis.
  • Winter 2023: Teaching Assistant in Introduction to the Study of Language (Ling 1), UCLA – Faculty Supervisor: Prof. Giuseppina Silvestri.
  • Fall 2022: Teaching Assistant in Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Classics 51A), UCLA – Faculty Supervisor: Prof. John K. Papadopoulos.
  • Spring 2022: Teaching Assistant in Elementary Latin (Latin 3 Hybrid), UCLA – Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Samuel Beckelhymer.
  • Winter 2022: Teaching Assistant in Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Classics 51A), UCLA – Faculty Supervisor: Prof. John Papadopoulos.
  • Fall 2021: Teaching Assistant in Elementary Latin (Latin 1 Hybrid), UCLA – Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Samuel Beckelhymer.

Awards

  • Spring 2025: Mellon Foundation Pre-Dissertation Fellowship — UCLA Division of Humanities.
  • AY 2024/2025: James Rignall Wheeler Fellowship —American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
  • Summer 2022: UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award (Project Title: Reflexes of Proto-Indo-European syllabic liquids in Mycenaean Greek. Supervisor: Prof. Brent Vine).
  • March 2022: Indogermanische Gesellschaft award for best Master’s thesis (3rd place) for Scribal errors in Linear B texts: genesis and typology between linguistic competence and productional context (Ita.: Gli errori scribali nei testi in Lineare B: genesi e tipologia tra competenza linguistica e contesto redazionale; Advisors: Rachele Pierini, Eugenio Ramón Luján Martínez, Camillo Neri).
  • Summer 2021: UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award (Project Title: Psycholinguistic Errors in the Mycenaean Tablets; Supervisor: Prof. Brent Vine).
  • June 2018: Postgate Prize 2018 as the best student in Historical Linguistics of the academic year 2017/2018, University College London – Department of Greek and Latin.