October 6, 2020, at 7:00 pm Pacific Time. Event is free and presented via Zoom meeting. Zoom link will be provided to attendees a few days before the meeting. REGISTRATION HERE. The month of October is a month of celebration of the Italian language in the world. This month Angela Zagarella will be presenting a brief overview of the history of Italian language and the complex linguistic landscape of regional languages, aka 'dialects'.

Angela Zagarella grew up in Siracusa. She has always loved languages and other cultures, a passion she cultivated by working in tourism in Italy and the United States. Her real calling is to teach her language and culture. She is currently the Italian Program Coordinator at Portland State University where she teaches language, literature, and cinema classes.

Her areas of interest are language teaching pedagogy, linguistics, Italian cinema, Italian culture, contemporary Italian literature, and Mediterranean Studies. She is also interested in the experience of migration, issues of national identity which she explores in Italian and Italophone literature. In Angela's spare time, she loves cooking, watches foreign movies, swims, goes for walks, and enjoys the beauty of nature.

For more of Angela's background and accomplishments, click here: Angela Zagarella BIO