Luciana Fellin, Assistant Professor of the Practice; Italian Studies and Linguistics

Office Location:  105 Language Center
Office Phone:  (919) 660-3117
Email Address:   send me a message

Education:

  • PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, University of Arizona, 2001
  • Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, cum laudae, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Italy, 1989

Teaching (Fall 2008):

  • ITALIAN 101.01, WRITING WORKSHOP Synopsis
    Perkins 2-060, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

Research Interests: Sociolinguistics

Current projects: Communicative practices in Italian American communities

Italian dialectology
Language ideologies
Language and identity Language socialization
Language maintenence, revival and loss Second language acquisition

Areas of Interest:

Sociolinguistics
Language ideologies
Language maintenence and loss, language revival
Language and identity; language socialization
Second language acquisition

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. L. Fellin, De Fina, A., "Italian in the U.S.", in The polyglot boarding house: Languages in the United States., edited by Potowski, K. (Ed.) (Summer, 2008), Clevendon: Multilingual Matters  [abs].
  2. L. Fellin, Lost tongues and reinvented repertoires: ideologies of language and creative communicative practices among third generation Italian-Americans, Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica ed Applicata (Accepted, Spring, 2008) .
  3. L. Fellin, L’italiano negli USA: prospettive e realizzazioni, in Un mondo di Italiano (Spring, 2008), Perugia, Guerra Edizioni .
  4. L. Fellin, Performance speech: L'esibizione discorsiva di identità, in La costruzione interazionale di identità: repertori linguistici e pratiche discorsive degli italiani in Australia, edited by Ciliberti, A (2007), Milano: Franco Angeli .
  5. L. Fellin, L. Fellin. "Performance speech: L'esibizione discorsiva di identità." ,, in ., La costruzione interazionale di identità: repertori linguistici e pratiche discorsive degli italiani in Australia, edited by Ed. Ciliberti, A. (2007), Milano: Franco Angeli, 2007. .