Rita Morandi Professorial Lecturer World Languages and Cultures
- Degrees
- Bachelor and Master's Degree in Interpreting and Translation Universit脿 degli Studi di Bologna - SSLIMIT.
MA German - University of Wisconsin, Madison
PhD German - University of Wisconsin, Madison - Bio
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Professor Morandi research interests include language change of minority languages and more specifically language shift in Germanic speech islands and its socio-historical correlates. She finds the intersection between language change and socio-historical events fascinating and inspiring to comprehend many aspects of human interaction in multilingual communities.
Professor Morandi graduated from the 澳门皇冠for Interpreters in Bologna Italy and went on to pursue a graduate degree in German with a focus on linguistics and a minor in Italian studies.
She has worked as a free lance interpreter and translator in Italy, Germany and the US, and has taught German, Italian and English in private and public institutions in different countries.
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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GERM-132 German, Elementary I
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GERM-132 German, Elementary I
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GERM-232 German, Intermediate I
Spring 2025
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GERM-133 German, Elementary II
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GERM-333 German Convers & Comp II
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LING-402 Words and Language Structure