Vera Gheno

Vera Gheno was born in Hungary 40 years ago and grew-up bilingual. She obtained a degree and a PhD in Italian Linguistics at the University of Florence. Since the year 2000, she has been managing the Accademia della Crusca’s Twitter account. She is an external faculty member of the University of Florence, the University for Foreigners of Siena and the Florentine branch of Middlebury College. She has been studying computer-based communication since the late 90’s and occasionally works as a literary translator from Hungarian into Italian. She defines herself as a “wandering linguist” as she tends to travel a lot.