Contributors

SALVATORE BANCHERI is a full professor and interim chair at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He was the chair and Emilio Goggio Chair of the Department of Italian Studies, the University of Toronto (2011–2019); director of the Frank Iacobucci Centre for Italian Canadian Studies (2005–2019); editor of Italian Canadiana (2004–2019); and he was the president of the American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI, 2014–2017). His research interests and publications are primarily in the area of textual criticism, religious theatre, eighteenth-century literature, Sicilian literature, second-language teaching and learning, theatre theory and performance, Italian Canadian studies, second-language acquisition, and media technology dedicated to the teaching of Italian. In 2007, his course ITA 312/313Y Italian Theatre: Text and Performance was nominated for inclusion in the College Board AP World Languages Best Practices Study in Italian Language and Culture. Bancheri has received many awards, including: the AATI Distinguished Service, the Joan E. Foley...