Massimo Sturiale is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Milan. His research interests lie primarily in English historical sociolinguistics, language standardisation, prescriptivism, phonology, lexicography, and the cultural and ideological dimensions of language history. He has published widely on the role of pronouncing dictionaries in the codification of English, the sociolinguistic status of accents in media and education, and the early English translations of Italian religious texts in the Elizabethan period.
He is the author or co-author of numerous articles in leading journals, including Language and History, Historiographia Linguistica, Textus, TOKEN, and RILA. His recent work also explores how Sicily and southern Italy were represented in early modern English travel writing and news discourse.
Sturiale is co-editor of several volumes, including Perspectives on Prescriptivism (Peter Lang, 2008), English Words in Time (Polimetrica, 2014), and a special issue of Language and History on pronouncing dictionaries (2012). He has contributed to major reference works such as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press. His research often combines archival work with digital humanities approaches, particularly in the recovery and analysis of late modern newspapers.
