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CURRICULUM VITAE Personal information Name: Valentina Ferreri Country: Italy Nationality: Italian EDUCATION May 2007: Master’s Degree in European and American Languages and Literatures at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome. Specialisation language: German. Mark: 110/110 e lode (first class honours) with Right for Publication July 2006: German language course, C2 level, at the did deutsch-institut in Berlin August 2005: Summer course Translation/Introduction to Interpreting (including seminar on subtitling) at the FASK of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz July 2004: German language course, C1 level, at the did deutsch-institut in Munich August 2003: German language course, B2 level, at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich July 2003: Bachelor’s degree in Modern Foreign Languages at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome. Studied languages: English, German, French. Mark: 110/110 e lode (first class honours) July 1999: High School diploma at the Liceo scientifico Edoardo Amaldi in Rome WORK EXPERIENCE April-June 2009: Teacher of Italian as a foreign language at Lernstudio Barbarossa, Düsseldorf since Jan. 2009: Freelance translator from English to Italian for private clients and companies. Areas of expertise: humanities, journalism, literature, tourism, history, general, marketing, video games (general), websites, consumer electronics, subtitling. June 2008: Internship at Gilde Verlag in Cologne 2007/2008: Language Assistant of Italian at Leibniz Gymnasium in Düsseldorf. Scholarship provided by an agreement between the Italian Ministero dell’Istruzione (Department for Education and Skills) and the German Pädagogischer Austauschdienst (Educational Exchange Service) August 2006: Four weeks internship at the Mensch Idee e. V. association in Berlin 2004/2005: Activity as student counsellor at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome August 2004: Four weeks internship at the did deutsch-institut in Munich FOREIGN LANGUAGES English: advanced German: advanced Spanish: intermediate French: elementary COMPUTER SKILLS Op. systems: Windows, FreeBSD, Linux Softwares: Microsoft Office, Open Office Writer, Adobe Photoshop, Gimp, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, TeXnicCenter (LATEX), Subtitle Workshop, iMovie, Sony Vegas Movie Studio, Windows Movie Maker. CAT Tools: Wordfast PUBLICATIONS 2009: La rivoluzione nel Teatro di Ernst Toller, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, Peter Lang Verlag, 2009 (ISBN 978- 3-03911-614-0) 2008: Affinità e corrispondenze nei racconti Das Urteil e Die Verwandlung di Franz Kafka, Grin Verlag, München, 2008 (published as E-book) 2007: Co-translation of Minutio by German contemporary author Botho Strauß published in AA.VV., Antologia I ed. Premio di traduzione ‘Le mie parole altrui’, Giovane Holden edizioni, Massarosa 2007, pages 64-72. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Interests: Literature, theatre, translation, mass media, music, drawing, fine arts, video editing.