Isabella Colombo

Experience

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  Hofstra University

  Feb 2021 - May 2021

  Research Assistant

  Catalogued, collected, and organized scholarship on Book 6 of Virgil’s Aeneid Located relevant scholarship in online databases Acquired and organized over 200 scholarly texts for future scholarly reference and useCatalogued over 375 secondary sourcesCompiled a 67-page annotated bibliographyPresented before Hofstra University faculty and students

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  Hofstra University

  Oct 2021 - now

  Manages the email account and social media pages of Hofstra’s MA in Linguistics: Forensic Linguistics program Tutored students in elementary and intermediate Latin, and introductory Linguistics

  • Graduate Linguistics Fellow: Program Outreach Coordinator

    Jun 2023 - now

  • Undergraduate Tutor

    Oct 2021 - May 2023
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  Institute for Forensic Linguistics, Threat Assessment, and Strategic Analysis.

  Feb 2022 - Aug 2022

  Intern

  Collaborated in teams to organize and analyze (both quantitatively and qualitatively) written and spoken language dataOrganized data into corpora and subcorpora to facilitate analyses Used the concordancing software AntConc to analyze corporaAnalyzed the distribution of question types in a corpus of voir dires Refined a transcript to include all utterances produced by speakersAnalyzed a transcript to determine whether a speaker's answers were preferred or dispreferred

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  Institute for Forensic Linguistics, Threat Assessment, and Strategic Analysis.

  Feb 2023 - now

  Intern

  Analyzes, both quantitatively and qualitatively, spoken and written language data, including voir dire transcripts, judicial opinions, jury instructions, interviews, and interrogationsAnalyzes and articulates the syntactic complexity of jury instructionsProposes rewrites to simplify complex syntaxAnalyzes linguistic features within and across texts to determine the likelihood of common authorship Drafts reports on analyses and methodological processes