Cinzia Spinzi is Associate Professor at the University of Bergamo.
She holds a PhD in English for Specific Purposes, an Ma in Translation Studies from the University of Birmingham, and a Research Fellowship from the City University of London.
She is co-editor of Cultus: the Journal of Intercultural Mediation and Communication. Her research interests include language/cultural mediation and translation, Corpus Linguistics and Functional Grammar applied to the study of ideology and metaphors in specialised communication, with a particular focus on political and tourism discourses.