Stefano Presutti is PhD in linguistics and Adjunct Professor at AUR - American University of Rome in Italian Studies Departments. Since 2015, he has been teaching Italian L2, anthropology and sociology courses at American universities and study programs in Rome, such as University of California (UCEAP), the Catholic University of America (CUA), The American University of Rome (AUR), the American Institute for Foreign Studies (AIFS), and many others.
The main courses he has taught so far are: Italian Food and Culture; Sociology of Contemporary Rome; Italian Language and Culture (all levels).
In his doctoral research, he investigated the Italian L2 acquisition development and the relationship between oral and written language in Western societies, especially at the graphophonological level.
Currently working on commodified identity and authenticity iconized by graphic signs in urban landscapes and brand logos; commodification and authenticity in food industry. His research interests include grapholinguistics, linguistic anthropology, social semiotics, visual communication and food studies. His work has been recently published in Q1 academic journals such as Lingua, Social Semiotics, Visual Communication, and International Journal of Multilingualism.
Selected publications
- Authentic Roman type: historical legacies in contemporary Rome's city brand. Visual Communication, 2025. DOI: 10.1177/14703572231199973 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14703572231199973
- Multiscriptality within the European Union: the case of a Greek and a Bulgarian urban landscape. International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024, pp. 1-19. DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2022.2133126. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14790718.2022.2133126
- Spanish tilde as a visual semiotic marker of Pan-Hispanism. Social Semiotics, 2023, pp. 1165-1182. DOI: 10.1080/10350330.2022.2035653. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10350330.2022.2035653
- The development of Latin alphabet identity markers: A comparison among three Romance graphemes. Lingua 259 (103118), 2021, pp. 1–17. DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2021.103118. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0024384121000905
Conference papers
- “Indexicality of letter V for national identity power in the Italian capital's semiotic landscape.” Language and Power. Münster (Germany), March 22-24 2023.
- “Pride and profit in sublexical features of an Italian brand logo.” Italian language, global language market, Italian companies in the world. Florence (Italy), October 7-8 2022.
- “The power of national identity at the grapho-phonological level: A case in Italian.” COMELA 2022. Bounded Languages... Unbounded. Athens (Greece), July 19-23 2022.
- “The interdependence between speech and writing. Towards a greater awareness”. Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century. Paris (France), June 17-19 2020.
Links
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefano-presutti-5b8a6a68/
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefano-Presutti?ev=hdr_xprf
- https://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-7700-5016