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Luciana Fellin, Assistant Professor of the Practice and Director of Italian Language Program, Romance Studies; Italian

Contact Info:

Office Location:	104 Languages Building
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3117
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• HOUSECS 59.38, HOUSE COURSE (SP TOP) Synopsis

  Crowell Qu BB 101T, M 07:00 PM-08:30 PM

• ITALIAN 303S.01, ITALIAN SOCIOLINGUISTICS Synopsis

  Languages 114B, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

  (also cross-listed as LINGUIST 305S.01)

• ASL 101.01, AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 101 Synopsis

  Old Chem 201, MTuTh 04:40 PM-05:55 PM

• ROMST 377S.01, LANGUAGE & IDENTITY Synopsis

  Languages 114B, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

  (also cross-listed as CULANTH 217S.01, ICS 376S.01, ITALIAN 377S.01, LINGUIST 377S.01, SOCIOL 377S.01)

• ROMST 700S.01, TEACHING FOREIGN LANG Synopsis

  Languages 114B, Tu 03:20 PM-05:50 PM

Education:

Ph.D.	University of Arizona	2001
M.A.	University of Bologna (Italy)	1990
Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, cum laudae	Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Italy

Specialties:

Linguistics and Theories of Pedagogy
Italian
Italian Studies

Research Interests: Sociolinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Language ideologies, Language socialization, Language Pedagogies

Current projects: Communicative practices in Italian-American communities, Language food and citizenship, The effects of traditional and alternative assessment forms in language teaching and learning

Areas of Interest:

Language ideologies
Language and identity
Second and multiple Language Acquisition
Language socialization

Keywords:

U.S. • Europe • Italy • Italian-American • Sociolinguistics • Ethnography

Undergraduate Research Supervised

• Nelly A. Kontchu (April 2013)
  Thesis: Stigma and perception of Mental Illness in Italy 
• Lauren Nicolescu (December, 2012 - April, 2013)  
• Matthew Cagliostro (August, 2011 - May, 2012)
  Thesis: Code-switching among Italian Americans: A comparison of early 20th and 21st century family practices 
• Hayes F. Tyler (August, 2011 - May, 2012)
  Thesis: Navigating the Science-Humanities Nexus: A franco-Italian Prespective
  Co-Chair with Deborah Jenson 
• Nelly Kontchu (August, 2011 - May, 2013)
  Thesis: Working Title: Perception of Mental Illness in Chile and Italy-- 
• Pollock Jordan (Spring 2004)
  Thesis: Immigrazione e umorismo in una zona di contatto linguistico: Il Cocoliche degli Italiani in Argentina, 
• Lauren Lee Houghton (2010 Spring)
  Thesis: Language and identity in contemporary Italy: A focus on immigrant and Italian native interactions. Lauren lee Houghton (2010) 
• Francesca -Co-directed with Roberto Dainotto Polvere (2007 - present)  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Fellin, L, Observe, document, reflect, elaborate Language learning through ethnographic observation and collaborative projects, inTRAlinea, vol. 20 (January, 2018)  [abs]
2. Fellin, L, “Parla Come Mangi! Ideologie Linguistiche e Identità Italiane alla Carta” In Gatta, F. (forthcoming 2016) Parlare insieme. Studi in onore di Daniela Zorzi. Bologna, Bononia University Press. (2016)
3. Fellin, L, Storia Linguistica dell'emigrazione italiana nel mondo. Vedovelli, M. (Ed) 2011. p. 567, Carroccci Editore, The Italian American Review, vol. 4 no. 2 (Summer, 2014), pp. 147-149, Calandra Italian American Institute/ Queens College. (November, 2015)
4. Fellin, L, “The Question of Language in the Italian American Experience” In Finotti, F,. & M Johnston, (Eds). L’Italia allo Specchio. Linguaggi e identità italiane nel mondo. . (2015), pp. 465-478, Venezia, Marsilio Editori,
5. Thompson, RJ; Walther, I; Tufts, C; Lee, KC; Paredes, L; Fellin, L; Andrews, E; Serra, M; Hill, JL; Tate, EB; Schlosberg, L, Development and Assessment of the Effectiveness of an Undergraduate General Education Foreign Language Requirement, Foreign Language Annals, vol. 47 no. 4 (December, 2014), pp. 653-668, WILEY, ISSN 0015-718X [doi]  [abs]

Luciana Fellin received a Laurea in English and German Literature and Linguistics from the University of Bologna, and a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona (2001). She has taught at the Universities of Trento and Bologna, as well as, San Diego State University. She has co-authored textbooks for Italian L2 (Iprase:Trento; Migros:Eurolingua Project, Zurich) and published book chapters and articles on second language acquisition. Her most recent work is “Language ideologies, language socialization and language revival in an Italian Alpine community,” Texas Linguistic Forum, Vol. 45 (2003). Her research interests include sociolinguistic aspects of second language acquisition, teaching and evaluation, as well as, the study of language ideologies as linked to language obsolescence, maintenance and revival. Presently, she is working on an ethnographic project investigating language and identity in Italian American communities.