Massimiliano Lorenzon

Massimiliano Lorenzon holds a Ph.D. in Italian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on sixteenth-century Italian culture, with particular interests in pedagogy, history, historical linguistics, and philology. His doctoral dissertation explores how the Italian vernacular was taught and learned across Western Europe during the sixteenth century. He is co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Bibliotheca Dantesca and has contributed articles to Focus Storia. His work has also been published by Oxford University Press. He has presented his research at numerous international conferences across the United States, Scotland, Uruguay, and Italy.

His teaching interests include second language acquisition methods, cultural content in language classes, and gamification as a strategy to support language acquisition. Over the course of his career, he has designed syllabi for a variety of courses that he has also taught, including Business Italian, Soccer Beyond the Field, Rome in Cinema, Italian for Reading Knowledge, and Italian Conversation.