Emanuela Tenca

Emanuela Tenca is a temporary assistant professor of English Language and Translation at the Saint Camillus International University of Health and Medical Sciences in Rome.

Emanuela Tenca holds a PhD in Human Sciences from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (2015), and between 2015 and 2025 she held positions as adjunct professor in English Language and Translation in a number of undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs at the Universities of Padua, Parma, Modena and Reggio Emilia, Verona, and Milan. She has also experience as a trainer in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses for English language teachers.

In 2022 Emanuela Tenca participated in the project “Towards accessibility and inclusion in language teaching: an effective, applicable teaching model” (University of Verona) as a post-doctoral researcher. Between 2023 and 2025 she participated in the project “History of second language teaching. A digital archive of ELT materials in Italy (1900-2000)” (University of Milan) as a post-doctoral researcher. Currently, she is a member of Unit 1 (University of Milan) in the PRIN project 2022 “Discourses and Contexts of Well-being in the History of English”.

Emanuela Tenca’s research interests include English language teaching and learning, also from a historical perspective, inclusive and accessible foreign language education, English for Specific Purposes (ESP), and corpus-assisted discourse analysis.