Full professor of Historical and General linguistics and member of the board of the Doctorate School in Philology, Dep. of Humanities, University of Naples Federico II. From 2015 to 2019 she was member of the (Italian) National University Council (CUN).
She is coordinator of the Research Center ReTe PraCo (Centro per la Ricerca nel campo della Retorica del Testo e della Pragmatica della Comunicazione) and Director of the Research Unit LISA / Lingua e Salute (del corpo, della persona, della comunità) at the Interdepartmental Research Center LUPT.
She is member of the editorial boards of «LIMES. Revista de Estudios Clásicos» (Santiago, Chile) and «Blityri. Studi di storia delle idee sui segni e le lingue» (Roma) and chief editor of the series “Linguistica delle differenze”, Roma, Aracne editrice.
FMD is the author of 4 books and more than 100 scientific articles on journals and books in the field of Linguistics.
Research interests: history of linguistics; metalinguistic terminology; Italian morphology; etymology; speech pathology; connotative aspects of speech.