DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN

Daniela Pozzi Pavan, Associate Professor of Instruction in Italian, graduated in law from Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. She holds master’s degrees in International Business Law and in French Civil Law. She also completed a master’s degree in Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, with a final dissertation titled “Beauty and Creativity in an Italian Language and Culture Course.” 

She currently serves as Director of the Italian Language Program and as Placement Coordinator for Italian. She coordinates and teaches the Elementary, Intensive, and Intermediate Italian sequences. She has also taught a wide range of courses at different levels of language instruction and designed an upper-division language-and-culture course in Business Italian.

In 2023, she received the Council on Language Instruction Excellence in Foreign Language Teaching Award.

Her research interests focus on Foreign Language Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition, with particular attention to content-based instruction and curriculum development to enhance students' engagement, motivation, and lifelong learning. Recently, she has published “Introducing Immigration and Integration in the Italian Language Curriculum - An Approach Based on ACTFL Standards,” co-authored with Daniele Biffanti (Italica, 2024), and “Il testo filmico nei corsi d’italiano: diversità e inclusione” (Quaderni del Master MITAL L2, 2024). She is currently developing an OER grammar book for the Intermediate and Intensive Italian courses and a digital textbook for the Intermediate Italian courses.

She is an active member of the Council on Language Instruction (CLI), serves as the CLI Advisory Board Representative for the French and Italian Department, and is a member of the Language Resource Center Advisory Board.