Veronica Vegna

Veronica Vegna specializes in teacher training, foreign language acquisition and contemporary Italian cinema. Her doctoral dissertation examined representations of gender dynamics in mafia contexts in contemporary Italian cinema. She teaches Italian language, culture, cinema, and foreign language acquisition theory and pedagogy. She also directs the Italian Language Program and coordinates the Languages Across the Curriculum Program. 

Veronica’s scholarship and research interests center on language and culture acquisition, Italian cinema (in particular cinematic representations of women in relation to the mafia), Italian-American literature and literature of migration. She has also translated essays by Dacia Maraini from Italian into English.