My name is Elisa Tameni, I am Italian and I was born on January 21, 1997 in Desenzano del Garda, a town in the province of Brescia. I currently live in Valencia, to continue my studies for PhD in Languages, Literatures, Cultures and its Applications at the local university.
I obtained the Bachelor’s Degree in Languages, Civilizations and Language Sciences, literary-cultural curriculum (Spanish, LIS and Anglo-American), at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Thanks to the awarding of an Erasmus+ scholarship I had the opportunity to attend the third academic year at the Universitat de València. This experience literally changed my life! In November 2019, I graduated with a final grade of 108/110 with the thesis entitled TFG «Women in evolution. Historias de coraje y valentía», coordinated by Professor Enric Bou i Maqueda.
In 2020, with the arrival of the pandemic, I decided to enroll in the Máster en Formación y Actualización de Profesores de Español como Lengua Extranjera of the Universitat de València. I chose to continue with the thematic line that began with my undergraduate thesis, recovering the literature of women authors during the 20th century during the Franco regime, this time seen from a different perspective: I created teaching units for ELE (Español como Lengua Extranjera) literature to give a voice to these forgotten but much-needed writers in Spanish classrooms abroad.
I graduated with a final grade of 8.99/10 with my master’s thesis «Mujeres en evolución: una mirada hacia las artistas olvidadas», coordinated by Raúl Molina Gil.
Subsequently, given the still uncertain pandemic situation, I decided to return to Ca’ Foscari to complete the Double International Degree: Master’s Degree in European, American and Postcolonial Languages and Literatures (University of Venice) – Master’s Degree in Higher Hispanic Studies (Universidad de Sevilla). During these two years I won two more scholarships: an Erasmus+ Traineeship that allowed me to work for three months in the Deanery and at the OREiP (Office for External Relations and Participation) of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communications of the Universitat de València; and another that allowed me to obtain the International Double Degree at the Universidad de Sevilla.
In 2022 I discussed my master’s thesis, entitled «La poesia de Vicent Andrés Estellés com a eina d’ensenyament del Català com a Llengua Estrangera», coordinated by Professor Paula Marqués Hernández (UNIVE) and Professor Francisco Javier Escobar Borrego (US), obtaining a score of 110 cum laude with honorable mention.
In 2020 I worked as a professor of Spanish language and literature at the Liceo Ven. A. Luzzago in Brescia and as a teacher of LIS – Italian Sign Language at Mazzoleni Nursery School in Calcinato and at Paola di Rosa High School in Lonato del Garda.
I am currently a predoctoral investigator in Llengües, Literatures, Cultures i les seues Aplicacions at the Universitat de València where I am developing a line of research that focuses on the figure of the writer Vicent Andrés Estellés and on the teaching of Catalan as a Foreign Language starting from the author’s texts. In parallel, I am also studying Estellés’ prose, theater and journalistic articles, three topics of the writer from Burjasot that have been little known up to now.