Valentina Colonna es investigadora Marie Skłodowska-Curie en la Universidad de Granada. En el marco de su beca postdoctoral (fellowship), financiada por la Unión Europea, es investigadora principal del proyecto «Voices of Spanish Poets: Vocal Archive and Experimental Study on Poetry». Su investigación se concentra en el estudio experimental de la prosodia de la poesía, a través de un enfoque interdisciplinario basado principalmente en la fonética experimental y en metodologías psicolingüísticas, así como en la conservación y valoración del patrimonio vocal de la poesía contemporánea.
Es doctor en Humanidades Digitales por las Universidad de Génova (evaluación: sobresaliente cum laude, Doctor Europaeus) y en 2022 publicó, gracias a un premio de la Universidad de Turín (Dep. of Foreign Languages and Cultures), su primera monografía académica titulada «Voices of Italian Poets: Storia e analisi fonetica della lettura della poesia italiana del Novecento» (Edizioni Dell’Orso), que incluye parte de su tesis doctoral y la metodología desarrollada para el estudio fonético de la poesía.
She is the scientific director, together with Antonio Romano, of the research project Voices of Italian Poets (VIP) at the University of Turin, the first vocal archive and experimental phonetic study of the voices of Italian poets, launched in 2017.
Her linguistic research has mainly focused on the phonetic study of 20th century and contemporary poetry, with particular emphasis on Italian, Spanish, English and invented languages.
She is also a poet, composer and pianist. She has published three books of poetry, three piano singles and an album, and her texts have been translated into sixteen countries. After obtaining her Master’s degree in piano, she specialised in Baroque repertoire at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) in Barcelona, where she obtained a Master’s degree in Early Music Performance in collaboration with the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB). She has edited and translated into Italian the first Italian anthology of Ángeles Mora (AnimaMundi), published with the support of the Spanish Cultural Action (AC/E).
University of Granada, Department of General Linguistics and Theory of Literature.