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Welcome! My name is Viola Ardeni and I am a Lecturer in the Department of French and Italian at the University of California, Davis, where I also serve as the Italian Language Program Coordinator. In 2019, I earned a Ph.D. in Italian from the University of California, Los Angeles.

My areas of teaching and research expertise are  Italian fairy tales, innovative pedagogy, gender studies, and childhood. I also write for academic and non-academic venues, both in English and in Italian.

Browse through my pages for details and feel free to get in touch. Grazie!

Luoghi di celluloide

Viaggio fra le location cinematografiche più belle

Italian Experiments

California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies Conference (2021, UC Davis)

Columbus Day Has Got to Go!

We advocate for the abolition of Columbus Day as federal holiday in the U.S.A.

박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen, Ph.D.

musings on korean diaspora, children's literature, and adoption

oןısɐ,ןןɐ ɐɯ ɐןonɔs ɐ opɐʌ uou

pagina a traffico illimitato, con facoltà di polemica, di critica, di autocritica, di didattica in presenza e in assenza, di insulti, di ritrattazioni, di sciocchezze e sciocchezzai, di scuola e scuole, buone e cattive, di temi originali e copiati, di studenti curiosi e indifferenti, autodidatti e etero didatti, di nonni geniali e zie ancora giovani (e vogliose), di bandiere al vento e mutande stese, di cani morti e gatti affamati (e assetati)

The Frazzled Prof

Ideas about online learning

Coffee & Cocktails® Podcast

The Alternative Anthropologist

jackzipes.com

Writer, Artist, Thinker, Storyteller,

Cultural Geo-Analytics

Dr Andrea Ballatore