Marina Manfredi is a Researcher in English Language and Translation at the University of Bologna. She teaches English Language and Linguistics as well as Theory and Practice of Translation. Her main research interests lie in the field of Translation Studies and include Systemic Functional Linguistics and translation, translation teaching, postcolonial translation, translation and world Englishes (especially Indian English), audiovisual translation (in particular of multicultural television programmes for younger audiences) and metaphor translation. She has contributed to national and international conferences on these topics and has published various articles and two books. Her current research mainly concerns the translation of popular science for press magazines, for the Web and news translation.