Scholarship

Open Educational Resources, Game-Based Learning, and L2 Pedagogy

2024 – “Language, Play, Immersion: Tabletop Role-Playing Games in the Italian L2 Classroom,” Italica (2024) [article – forthcoming]
 Within the special edited volume Emerging horizons: new directions in Italian culture and language pedagogy

2024 – “Roll for Learning: Micro Tabletop Role-Playing Games to Use in the Classroom,” co-editor with Matthew Farber and William Merchant
ETC Press / Carnegie Mellon [forthcoming]
Call for abstracs: https://press.etc.cmu.edu/news/call-abstracts-roll-learning

2020 – “(Video) Games, Gamification, and Game-Based Learning in the Foreign/L2 classroom,” co-author with Simone Bregni and Brandon Essary.
Italian Language and Culture Conference: Challenges in the 21st Century Italian Classroom, edited by Louise Hipwell and Donatella Melucci.
Digital Georgetown, Georgetown University, Volume 1 (Fall 2020): 7-29. [article] http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1060512

2020 – “Teaching and Learning in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” with Daniela Bartalesi-Graf. Italica, 97.2 (2020): … [article]

2014 – “The Importance of Bridging,” L2 Journal, 6.1 (2014): 18-22. [article]

Italian Cinema

2017 – “A Grotesque Entanglement of Money and Power in Elio Petri’s Property is no Longer a Theft. (1973),” booklet for Property is no Longer a Theft. Arrow Films, DVD. February 2017. [DVD booklet essay] https://www.arrowvideo.com/product/property-is-no-longer-a-theft/791

2014 – “Bad cops, dubious killers, and alienated citizens: Elio Petri’s The Assassin (1961),” booklet for The Assassin. Arrow Films, DVD. July 21, 2014. [DVD booklet essay] https://www.arrowvideo.com/product/the-assassin-lassassino/806

2014 – “Review of Viaggio al termine dell’Italia. Fellini politico by Andrea Minuz,” Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies Vol. 2.2 (June 2014).[review]

2014 – “Scene Analysis of All My Friends Part 2,” in World Cinema Locations: Florence, edited by Alberto Zanbenedetti. Wilmington, NC: Intellect Books, 2014. [scene analysis]

2013 – “Report. CineRoma, an International Summer Seminar on the Cinema and the City. Rome, 11-28 June 2012,” Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. [report]

2013 – Video interview for Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion. Criterion Collection, DVD extra.
https://www.criterion.com/films/27911-investigation-of-a-citizen-above-suspicion

2013 – Translation: excerpts from Pirro, Ugo. Il cinema della nostra vita (Rome: Lindau, 2000). Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion. Criterion Collection, DVD extra. [excerpts translation – DVD booklet] https://www.criterion.com/films/27911-investigation-of-a-citizen-above-suspicion

2013 – Translation: Petri, Elio. Writings on Cinema and Life. New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2013. [book translation]
https://www.amazon.com/Writings-Cinema-Life-Elio-Petri/dp/0983697256

2012 – “Film Panels and Papers at the 2011 American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS) Annual Conference,” The Italianist (Film) 32 (2012-ii): 309-314 [report]