• Master in Italian Applied Linguistics and Literature, Università per stranieri di Siena, Italy-  2018. Title of thesis: “Folktales and Fairy Tales in the University Foreign Language Classroom”.
• Laurea in Foreign Languages and Literatures (Russian), Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy – 1991.  Title of defended thesis: “Kniga Sistima ili Sostojanie Magommedanskoj Religii” di D. Kantemir. Translation: Dimitrij Kantemir’s “A Book on the System or Structure of the Mohammedan Religion”. 
• Certificate in Elementary Education -1999
• Diploma in Elementary Education- 1985