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Brief Biography Anna De Fina is currently the Coordinator of the Italian Language Program at Georgetown University. She obtained an M.A. in Linguistics from Esculea Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico, an M. Phil. in Linguistics from Cambridge University, and a Ph. D. in Linguistics from Georgetown University. Between 1981 and 1993, she worked as Professor of Italian Language and Applied Linguistics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, where she also chaired the Applied Linguistics Department for three years. She started teaching at Georgetown in 1995. Her interests focus on Language Contact, Bilingualism, Narrative, Language and Identity, Immigrant discourse. She is the co-author of two textbooks for Spanish-speaking students of Italian, and has published articles on Applied Linguistics, Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics. Her most recent publications are the book Identity in Narrative (2003, John Benjamins) and the co-edited volume Italiano e italiani fuori d’Italia (2003, Guerra). Return to Playing Briscola and being an Italian in America by Anna De Fina |