Paper presentations

Unit 1: University of Milan

Emanuela Tenca, Andrea Nava, Luciana Pedrazzini, “The Discourse of Well-being in American Late Modern Self-help Texts for Teachers and Students (1830-1930): Findings from a Small-scale Study”, Corpus Linguistics 2025 (CL2025), Aston University, Birmingham, 30 June-3 July 2025.

Unit 2: University of Bergamo

Marina Dossena, “Ghost Riders in the Text: Lyrics and Language Profiles through Time”, Sociolinguistics of Pop Culture, Bamberg, 30-31 March 2023.

Marina Dossena, “Voices of Female Childhood: Music, Education and the Social Construction of Identity in the Foundling Hospital”, Late Modern English (LModE-8), Salamanca, 2-4 October 2024 (with Nuria Calvo Cortés).

Marina Dossena, “‘On the Threshold of the Unseen’: The Language of Inexplicability in Late Modern Entertainment”, Linguistics Beyond and Within, Lublin, 17-18 October 2024 (plenary talk).

Marina Dossena, “‘In a most pleasing taste’. Advertisements for New Music from Italy in 18th-century Newspapers”, News from Italy, Florence, 23-25 October 2024).

Marina Dossena, “Entertainment for All in the (Supposedly) Wild West”, 28th Biennial AISNA Conference Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West, Bergamo, 11-13 September 2025 (talk delivered in the PRIN panel “Discourses of Well-being in the American West”).

Stefano Rosso, “Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West“, 28th Biennial AISNA Conference Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West, Bergamo, 11-13 September 2025 (talk delivered in the PRIN panel “Discourses of Well-being in the American West”).

Giulia Rovelli, “The Bilingual Problem. Nationalism and the Language Question in Canada (1791-1899)”, 2024 European Society for the Study of English conference (ESSE 2024), Lausanne, 26-30 August 2024.

Giulia Rovelli, “Health, Prosperity, Intellectual Advancement. The Evolution of the Concept of Well-being in Canada (1791-1920)”, British Association for Canadian Studies and Centre of Canadian Studies 50th Anniversary Conference (BACS 2025), Edinburgh, 24-26 April 2025.

Massimo Sturiale and Giulia Rovelli, “The Language of Well-being in 19th-century Newspapers and Magazines: A Methodological Framework”, 32nd conference of the Italian Association for the Study of English Conference (AIA32), Turin, 11-13 September. 2025.

Unit 3: University of Florence

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Unit 4: University of Insubria

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“St. John’s Park, NYC”. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1866.