Contributors

SIMONE CASINI is associate professor of Italian studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He has authored many books such as Language Creativity: A Semiotic Perspective (Lexington Books, 2020), Lingue e linguaggi d'Italia in Canada. Riflessioni di linguistica educative su Quannu nun era matrimoniu ‘ppi procura di Lina Riccobene (Legas, 2021) with Salvatore Bancheri, and Che cosa è la linguistica educativa (Carocci, 2016) with Massimo Vedovelli, and over fifty publications in international journals like Forum Italicum, Italian Canadiana, Italica, Le forme e la storia. Rivista di filologia moderna, Mosaic, Semiotica, Studi canadesi, and Studi italiani di linguistica teorica e applicata. His areas of research include educational linguistics, Italian linguistics, semiotics, language policies, language teaching and learning, Italian Canadian studies, and second-language acquisition. It should be noted that the present study encompasses all seven of these domains of expertise. He is currently the co-investigator for the SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) project Italiese And Its New Developments: From Endangered to a Global Language (2022–2025). [simone.casini@utoronto.ca]MARCELLA DI FRANCO has a degree in Italian and Latin language from the University of Messina. She has attained two-year postgraduate degrees in methodologies and psycho-pedagogy for science humanities and in disability teaching methodologies for students with social and learning disabilities from the University of Reggio Calabria. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in teaching Italian as a foreign language L2 from Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences in Rome. She's currently a secondary school teacher of Italian, Latin language and literature, history, and geography. She has published several essays in scientific and academic journals such as Spunti e Ricerche, Italica, Dante 700, Aras, PSA, Italian House “Zerilli-Marimò”, Gradiva (international journal of Italian poetry), Misure critiche, Horizonte, Zibaldone Italian studios, Mosaico italiano, Nuova Corvina, Palimpsest, Notos revue, Arba sicula, Sicilia Parra, Humanities, Griselda online, Silvae, Latina Didaxis, Riscontri, Agorà, Topologik, Educazione aperta, Letteratura & Società, and Le nuove frontiere della scuola. She has received many national literary awards for creative writing of tales and poems.ROBERTA FERRONI is currently adjunct professor in the master's degree course in teaching Italian to foreigners at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia and collaborates on the Master ItaLin of the same university. She taught in the Postgraduate Program in Italian Language, Literature and Culture at the Universidade de São Paulo (Brasil). Her research interests include the study of interaction in the FL class, interactional competence in different contexts, and migration linguistics. [robertaferronibr@gmail.com]ALANI HICKS-BARTLETT is assistant professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature, French and Francophone Studies, and Hispanic Studies at Brown University, and holds official affiliations in the Department of Italian Studies, the Program in Early Cultures, the Program in Medieval Studies, and the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World. She received doctorates from the University of California, Berkeley, and from Middlebury College. An interdisciplinary scholar of the Medieval and Early Modern periods, her research focuses primarily on questions of authorship, gender, race, disability, and violence. Her recent publications have explored epic poetry, the development of the love lyric and Petrarchism, Arthurian romance, politics and the gendered body, intertextuality and classical exemplarity in medieval and early modern literature, theatrical representations of violence and tragedy, and critical theory. [alani_hicks-bartlett@brown.edu]CHRISTOPHER KLEINHENZ is professor emeritus of Italian at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he taught medieval Italian literature for almost forty years. He served as AATI president from 1998 to 2003 (VP, 1992–1998) and received the AATI Distinguished Service Award in 2006. Among his other honors are the Fiorino d'oro from the Società Dantesca Italiana and the Comune di Firenze (2008) and the Distinguished Service Award from the Dante Society of America (2018). He was elected a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2009. His most recent publications include: Dante intertestuale e interdisciplinare: saggi sulla ”Commedia” (2015); The Decameron: A Critical Lexicon (Lessico Critico Decameroniano) (ed. 2019); and Approaches to Teaching Dante's “Divine Comedy” (co-ed. with Kristina Olson, 2020). [ckleinhe@wisc.edu]CHIARA MAZZUCCHELLI is associate professor and Dr. Neil Euliano Chair in Italian Studies at the University of Central Florida. At UCF, she directs the Italian Program and teaches courses on Italian language and culture, and Italian and Italian American literatures. She was associate chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures from Spring 2017 to Fall 2021 and UCF's Provost Faculty Fellow for 2019–2020. She is the author of The Heart and the Island: A Critical Study of Sicilian American Literature (SUNY Press, 2015) and has published articles in journals such as Italica, Nuova Prosa, Forum Italicum, Altreitalie, and Italian Americana. From 2009 to 2018, she was editor-in-chief of the semi-annual and peer-reviewed journal Voices in Italian Americana-VIA, a literary and cultural journal dedicated to Italian-American studies. [chiara.mazzucchelli@ucf.edu]DANIELA PRIVITERA has obtained a PhD in Italian studies (lexicography and semantics of literary Italian) and holds the National Scientific Qualification as associate professor of Italian literature since 2018. She is a visiting professor at Middlebury College in Vermont (USA) from 2011 to present, and a professor of contemporary Italian literature at the Niccolò Cusano University in Rome. She also teaches literature and Latin at the Liceo Classico Mario Rapisardi in Paternò (Catania, Italy). She has been an organizer and speaker at over thirty conferences in the field of Italian studies, concerning modern and contemporary Italian literature, cinema, emigration literature, and feminism in literature. She has published numerous essays and monographs on Foscolo, Pascoli, Sciascia, Fante, Rimanelli, Verga, Camilleri, Pasolini, D'Arrigo, Igiaba Scego and the new Italians, Fellini, Andò, and Maresco. [daniela.privitera67@gmail.com]The views and opinions expressed in Italica are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the editor, editorial board, the American Association of Teachers of Italian, or the publisher.

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