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

| Office Location: | 105 Language Center |
| Office Phone: | (919) 660-3117 |
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- 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 2009):
- ITALIAN 63.08, INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN
Synopsis
- Languages 305, MW 11:55 AM-12:55 PM; Social Sciences 311, F 11:55 AM-12:55 PM
Teaching (Spring 2010):
- 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)
- L. Fellin, A. Defina, “Italian in the U.S.”, in Immigrant Language Patterns in the U.S., edited by Potowski, K. (Ed.), vol. 1 no. 1 (2009), Cambridge University Press .
- 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) .
- L. Fellin, L’italiano negli USA: prospettive e realizzazioni, in Un mondo di Italiano (Spring, 2008), Perugia, Guerra Edizioni .
- 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 .
- L. Fellin, Handbook for Instructors of Italian. Romance Studies, Duke (Annually 2003-2008) .
