Full Professor of General and Historical Linguistics
Università per Stranieri di Siena
International Fellow
Professor Marina Benedetti is a TORCH International Fellow during Trinity Term 2023
Professor Benedetti is the president of the Società Italiana di Glottologia, and the Principal
Investigator of two National Interest Research Projects, one on language contact in the
ancient world, with a specific focus on Biblical texts, and another on the history of Classical
grammatical tradition. During her stay in Oxford, she will be collaborating with colleagues across Linguistics and Classics, including the roundtable 'Past, Present, and Future of Historical Linguistics' on the 13th May 2023 at Ertegun House, Oxford.
Prof Benedetti will be a TORCH International Fellow during Trinity Term, 2023. Her academic host is Dr Michele Bianconi, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics.