MORO FRANCESCA ROMANA

Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Family name: Moro
First name: Francesca Romana
Researcher unique identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9504-7642
Date of birth: 07/09/1985
Nationality: Italian
Email address: francesca.moro@unior.it

EDUCATION
2011 – 2016 PhD in Linguistics (cum laude)
Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Title of Dissertation: “Dynamics of Ambon Malay: Comparing Ambon and the Netherlands”. Supervisors: P. Muysken, M. Klamer, S. Aalberse and H. Hammarström.
2009 – 2011 Research MA in Linguistics (cum laude)
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Thesis title: “A sketch grammar of Dampelas, a language of central Sulawesi”. Supervisor: M. Klamer.
2004 – 2008 BA in Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (110/110, cum laude)
Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies, Università di Napoli L’Orientale, Italy. Thesis title: “Migrazioni linguistiche e culturali dal persiano all’indonesiano”. Supervisors: F. Soenoto and A. Soriente.

CURRENT POSITION
2025- present Associate Professor, Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo (DAAM), Università di Napoli L’Orientale.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2022 – 2025 Lecturer and researcher (RTD-b) Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo (DAAM), Università di Napoli L’Orientale.
2020 – 2022 Lecturer and researcher (RTD-a) Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e dell'Innovazione per il Territorio (DISUIT), Università dell’Insubria.
2015 – 2019 Post-Doctoral Researcher in Linguistics, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
08/2018 Abilitazione scientifica nazionale (national scientific qualification) nel settore 10/G1 Glottologia e Linguistica.
08/2018 Abilitazione scientifica nazionale (national scientific qualification) nel settore 10/N3 Culture dell'Asia centrale e orientale.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2022 – ongoing Lingua indonesiana II-III, corso di laurea triennale, Università di Napoli L’Orientale
2022 – ongoing Lingua indonesiana I-II, corso di laurea magistrale, Università di Napoli L’Orientale
2022 Lingue ereditarie delle nuove generazioni, corso di laurea triennale, Università dell’Insubria.
2020 – 2022 Acquisizione delle lingue e didattica, corso di laurea triennale, Università dell’Insubria.
2016 – 2018 Descriptive and contact linguistics, Research MA course, Leiden University.
2015 – 2017 Describing non-western languages: linguistic structure and cultural context. Ambon Malay, BA course, Leiden University.


THESIS SUPERVISION:
28 BA Thesis, 4 MA Thesis, 3 PhD Thesis (George Saad, Yunus Sulistyono, Marie Elsie Or).

PI/MEMBER OF THE FOLLOWING RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Principal Investigator:
2023 – 2025 PI of the PRIN PNRR 2022 project ‘HELLO Campania -Heritage Languages and Languages of the Others’ (Prot. P2022WJ8YF), Università di Napoli L’Orientale (contributo 262.586,00€)

2022 – 2023 PI of the project ‘Heritage Tagalog in Italy’, Junior research fellowship (12 months), awarded to Dott.ssa Gina Russo, Università dell’Insubria (contributo 19.000,00€).

Member of the projects:
2014 – 2019 Postdoctoral researcher in the NWO VICI Project Reconstructing the past through languages of the present: The Lesser Sunda islands, PI: M. Klamer, Leiden University.
2011 Student assistant in the ERC Advance project Traces of Contact, (# 230310) PI: P. Muysken, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Collaboration:
2021 Contributor to the ERC Starting Project Linguistic Adaptation, PI: K. Sinnemäki, University of Helsinki, Finland.

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2021 – 2022 Member of the FAR Committee (Academic Research Fund), Università dell’Insubria.
2020 – 2022 Member of the AIQUAR Committee (Internal Quality Assurance in Research), Università dell’Insubria.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023-ongoing Member of the Doctoral School in Linguistics, Università di Pavia (Coordinatrice Silvia Luraghi).
08/2019 Manuscript Committee member, PhD Thesis of H. Fricke, Traces of language contact. The Flores-Lembata languages in eastern Indonesia. Leiden University.
11/2018 Opponent in the PhD defence of F. A. Boswell, A grammar of Cheke Holo. Leiden University.

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
2023 Seminario “Linguistics in Indonesia and beyond. Fieldwork, methodologies and experiences on Austronesian and Papuan languages” (con Antonia Soriente), Università di Napoli L’Orientale (23 Oct.-21 Nov.)
2023 Language Documentation Summer School, University of Naples L'Orientale (10-14 July)
2022 Seminario “La diversità linguistica” (con Andrea Sansò), Università dell’Insubria (16 March-9 May).
2019 11th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL11), Leiden University.
2018 7th International East Nusantara Conference (ENUS7), Kupang, Indonesia.
2012 – 2014 CLS colloquia, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
Associate Editor Glossa Contact
Scientific committee: Ethnorêma
Reviewer International Journal of Bilingualism, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, Italiano LinguaDue, Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, Kervan International Journal of African and Asiatic Studies.

MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
2019 – present Steering Committee member, Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL).
Member of: Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l’Oriente (ISMEO), Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (AItLA), Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE).

RESEARCH EXPEDITIONS
2016 Fieldwork for data collection on Alorese, in Alor and in Pantar, Indonesia (6 months)
2012 Fieldwork for data collection on Ambon Malay, in Ambon, Indonesia (2 months)
2010 Fieldwork for data collection on Dampelas, in Sulawesi, Indonesia (2 months)

THIRD MISSION
25/03/2024 Incontro alla Scuola di Pace con le comunità migranti per discutere insieme sulla ricchezza delle lingue parlate a Napoli (iniziativa del Progetto PRIN HELLO Campania).
29/09/2023 Festival delle Lingue, Panel on the Languages of South East Asia (with Antonia Soriente), Università di Napoli L’Orientale. The Festival aimed at introducing the variety of languages and cultures studied at L’Orientale to the wide community
2023 – ongoing Member of the Expert Committee of the Totaal Moluks project (with Aone van Engelenhoven, and Yäel Latuny). The project aims at creating social media videos about Ambon Malay, specifically target for second and third generation Moluccans in the Netherlands.
AWARDS
03/2020 Seal of Excellence. Certificate delivered by the European Commission for the project proposal ‘LiVInBorneo - Linguistic variation and change in an indigenous minority language of Borneo’, submitted under the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, call H2020-MSCA-IF-2019.
09/2016 PhD dissertation nominated for Avt/Anéla Dissertation Award 2016.

CAREER BREAKS
03/2021 – 08/2021 5 months maternity leave
08/2017 – 12/2017 4 months maternity leave