Elisa Perego is a tenured research fellow in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Trieste in the Department of Law, Language, Translation and Interpreting studies where she has worked since 2006. Previously, she studied at the University of Pavia graduating cum laude in Foreign Languages (English and Hungarian) and where she was awarded a PhD in Linguistics (2004, Explicitation in subtitling: Towards a categorisation). During her undergraduate and postgraduate studies, she furthered her academic and personal development through various scholarships, exchange programmes and fellowships in various European states e.g. funded from the Hungarian Ministry of Education (1997; 1999-2000), Italian language teaching at the University of Hull (1997-98), visiting fellowships at the University of Copenhagen (2003) and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium, 2006 and 2008). In addition, she tutored in General Linguistics in various undergraduate courses between 2000 and 2004 at the University of Pavia, where she lectured in English linguistics and Hungarian Language courses between 2002 and 2008 as a contract professor.

She currently teaches English linguistics, specialising in audiovisual translation, at the Education Faculty of the University of Trieste and is an active member of several national university funded projects all centring on audiovisual translation, e.g. 2011-13 New texts for new communities: Translational, multimodal, evaluational, educational, intercultural, ideological, historical and political aspects of English and other languages in contemporary texts, and an LLP European project 2011-13, Audio description: Lifelong learning access for the blind (www.adlabproject.eu/). Since 2009 she has been a member of the scientific committee for the PhD in Translation and Interpreting, Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori, University of Trieste, Italy, and a member of the scientific committee for the joint online Master, University of Parma, Italy, and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, in Virtual Audiovisual Translation (http://info.metav.unipr.it/).

See the other members of the University of Trieste Research Unit.