Faculty Directory
- Pronouns she, her, her, hers, herself
- Title
- Lecturer in Italian
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Affiliations Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Phone 831.459.4746
- Office Location
- Cowell College Academic Building, ROOM 101
- N/A
- Office Hours We 11 AM-12 pm (or by appointment)
- Mail Stop Cowell Academic Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Italian, Language and Linguistics
- Courses ITAL 1-01 and ITAL 3-01
Research Interests
Second language acquisition and development
Foreign language acquisition in instructed contexts
Bilingual acquisition
Multilingualism
Acquisition of tense and aspect
Language learning and education
Second language pedagogy
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D in Linguistics, UC Davis (2018)
M.A. in Linguistics, UC Davis (2015)
M.A. in English and French Languages and Literatures, IULM, Milan (1994)
Teaching Interests
Foreign language pedagogy
Italian Linguistics
Italian Culture through Film