Isabella Martini (isabella.martini@unifi.it) is a full-time English Language Assistant Professor at the Department of Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology of the University of Florence. She is Ph.D. in Foreign Literature (English concentration), earned at the University of Pisa. She has published on Anglo-Canadian short stories and on translation. Recently she has published on her current research in linguistics, specifically on corpus linguistics, historical news discourse, historical English and historical pragmatics. She is also a member of The Corpora and Historical English Research Group (CHER – Florence Unit) and of the Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (AIA).
