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is Assistant Professor and Erasmus Coordinator in the Faculty of Communication at Üsküdar University, Istanbul. She has been awarded the Ibn Haldun Doctoral Scholarship in  Social Sciences in 2014. She  completed her doctorate in Communication Studies  at Marmara University (Istanbul) focusing on the institutionalisation of the Turkish language in Ottoman and Early Republican newspapers, and carried out postdoctoral research in Digital Humanities at the University of Bologna. Her main research interests are communication and language, press history, sociolinguistics, and digital humanities. Dr. Cristaldi has also presented on Byzantine and Islamic medieval riddles at several international conferences. 

is Research Fellow at the University of Insubria, Italy. She holds a PhD in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (specialising in Germanic Philology - Old English Language and Literature) from the University of Pavia. Her research is fundamentally interdisciplinary, bridging philology, medical humanities, and cultural history, with particular expertise in border studies and monster studies. She has published widely on medical humanities, the history of balneotherapy and water cures, and the role of aquatic environments in medieval and early modern medical thought. Her scholarship encompasses not only Old and Middle English but also Old and Middle High German, Anglo-Latin, and Medieval Italian literature. She has held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Queen’s University Belfast and collaborated on major digital humanities projects at the University of Oxford. Her work integrates the study of language and literature with broader questions in cultural history and the medical humanities.