Laura Torre is currently a Ph.D. student at the Department of Communication and Journalism. Born in Italy, she holds a B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Genoa (Italy) and a M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Siena (Italy). Also, she obtained a Ph.D. in Translation and Language Sciences from the Pompeu Fabra University (Spain), with a thesis on Spanish and Italian news (and readers' comments) on Facebook about gender violence.

With a general curiosity and interest in everything about Communication Studies, she is particularly interested in Media Studies, focusing on mass media discourses, especially on newspapers and social media (particularly considering Facebook). Also, she is interested in Gender Studies, but again especially considering mass media discourses, above all about violence against women. Finally, she is interested in the Critical Discourse Analysis perspective as an instrument to study the Power and Domination present in the different discourses of our society, above all mass media ones.

Outside the academic world, Laura takes photos as an amateur photographer. She loves reading and listening to almost all kinds of music. Last but not least, she likes traveling and knowing as many places as possible.