Anna Iacovella, Ed.D, is the Language Program Director of the Department of Italian Studies at Yale University. She graduated in English Language and Literature from the Università Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples, Italy and continued her specialization in Italian at Southern Connecticut State University. She obtained her doctoral degree in the Educational Leadership at Southern Connecticut State University, with dissertation: “Students’ Motivations in Foreign Language Learning in Higher Education.”
Her scholarly research includes publications in academic journals and participating in pedagogy projects and presentations. Her interests are Italian film and television with the inclusion of streaming TV, history, visual arts, gender writing, and language pedagogy. Anna Iacovella is a contributing editor for Years Work in Modern Language Studies Journal (YWMLS) and the organizer of Linguistic Futures in the Italian Studies Department at Yale University: a series of interactive presentations and workshops in language pedagogy and initiatives in higher education institutions. She teaches undergraduate and graduate language and culture courses and graduate methodology courses.