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

Luciana Fellin

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 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):

  • ITALIAN 63.05, INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN Synopsis
    Perkins 2-065, MWF 11:55 AM-12:55 PM
  • ITALIAN 108S.01, ITALIAN SOCIOLINGUISTICS Synopsis
    Languages 109, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 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, 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 .
  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, Handbook for Instructors of Italian. Romance Studies, Duke (Annually 2003-2008) .