Francesca Ricciardelli is a Graduate Student in the Translation and Language Sciences Doctorate Program at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in Barcelona. Her thesis is entitled Strategie spontanee di Intercomprensione di una poesia in italiano: osservazione su tre gruppi di partecipanti. She is currently a full-time Lecturer of Italian at The University of Southern California, in Los Angeles. Francesca obtained her second MA in Italian Studies at California State University, Long Beach in 2019, where she started her research in Intercomprehension, Plurilingualism, and Second Language Acquisition. She graduated with her first MA in Language Sciences at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (IT), in June 2016, and her BA in Foreign Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, in English and French at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (IT), in 2014.