Domenica Minniti Gonias is a professor of Italian Linguistics and Translation at the Department of Italian Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). She completed her undergraduate studies in Lingue e Letterature Straniere (Università Orientale, Naples) and her postgraduate studies in Italian Linguistics (Università La Sapienza, Rome). She holds a PhD from the Department of Philology at NKUA. She teaches courses in Italian Linguistics and Translation Studies with a focus on Historical Linguistics. Her research interests include the study of contact between the Italian and Greek languages, with an emphasis on lexical borrowing and the dialectology of Greek dialects in southern Italy.
She has published articles in Greek and international scientific journals (EEFSPSA, Rivista Italiana di Dialettologia, Italia dialettale, Studi di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata, etc.) and has edited 3 collective volumes. She has also authored the following monographs and books: Oralità e poesia nella grecofonia calabrese (1983), Una ricerca sociolinguistica nella grecità calabrese (1990), L’elemento nazional-popolare in Gramsci e Seferis: lingua, cultura, letteratura (1996), Storia della lingua italiana (20082), Detailed Curriculum for the Teaching of the Italian Language in High School (2008), Le parole e i significati dell’italiano (2010), Italiano LS. Teoria e prassi (2012), La ienti de Sïón. Un’elegia del XIII sec. in dialetto giudeo-italiano (2012), Italoellenica A'. Studies on Lexical Borrowing (2018), La Traduzione. Storia – Teoria – Pratica (2018).
She is the Director of the Laboratory of Language, Translation, and Study of Relations between the Italian and Greek Languages (Lab.It.El.), a member of the Accademia della Crusca team for Italianisms in the languages of the world and the Mediterranean Linguistic Atlas, as well as the coordinator of the research team for the production of educational material at the Institute of Educational Policy (ESPA) and the Scientific Director for 4 training programs at the Center for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning (KE.DI.VI.M.) of NKUA. She founded the international conference Italoellenica in 2015, which is held biennially at NKUA, and the Permanent Seminar on Dialectology, in collaboration with the University Federico II of Naples.