Silvia Verdiani studied Linguistics, Art, and German and Romance Studies at the University of Turin (Italy). She holds holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Digital Humanities from the Universities of Potsdam, Turin and Genoa. She is a research assistant in German Linguistics at the University of Turin and a literary translator (Franzobel, Mela Hartwig, Konrad Lorenz, Billy Wilder, among others). Her research interests include digital multimodality as well as image and text linguistics.