Gioia Franchi is a PhD student of Linguistics at the University of Paris 8 (ED31 Pratiques et Théories du Sens) and Linguistic Project Manager at Reverso, where she ensures quality control for multilingual databases. After her undergraduate degree in Applied Linguistics at Trieste (Italy), she earned a Master’s Degree in Russian Language and Culture at St. Peterburg State University and in Translation at Paris 8. Her research focuses on collocations in corpora of translations between English, French, Italian and Russian.

This research deals with expressions and collocation in a cross-cultural perspective within different languages, i.e. Italian, French, English and Russian, which I have been passionate about since childhood. This love for cultures and different languages has guided me professionally in translation and localization projects, and is a source of inspiration for poetic and literary translations, as well as cultural reportage and photo-reportage – respecting and acquiring the most from art, music and meditation in order to discover the richness of cultures.