Research interests:

• linguistic anthropology of education
• educational linguistics
• linguistic ethnography
• classroom discourse analysis
• language ideology
• language-in-education policy
• metapragmatics
• language teaching
• teacher training
• secondary education

Professional background:

I am an educational linguist and discourse analyst with an interest in language practices and ideologies in education contexts. At Eurac, I am currently exploring how such ideologies and practices manifest in Italian secondary schools in Northeastern Italy via participatory action research.

Prior to my fellowship at Eurac, I spent the years of my doctoral studies researching a variety of topics including education policy, minority language revitalization, citizen sociolinguistics, metapragmatics, and language socialization. I bring this interdisciplinary background to my current research project, Stances Toward Education in Multilingual Contexts (STEMCo).

I am also fortunate to have had a brief but rich career as an adult educator, during which time I taught in contexts ranging from night school ESOL classes, to community college Italian classes, to Ivy League graduate programs. This experience is fundamental to my work in education research.