Valentina Colonna is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Granada. Within this framework, she is the Principal Investigator of the project Voices of Spanish Poets: Vocal Archive and Experimental Study of Poetry. Her research focuses on the experimental study of the prosody of poetry through an interdisciplinary approach, mainly based on experimental phonetics and psycholinguistic methods, as well as on the preservation and evaluation of the vocal heritage of contemporary poetry.
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.