Rita Morandi Professorial Lecturer CAS | World Languages and Cultures

Additional Positions at AU: Professorial Lecturer (German, Linguistics, Italian); Italian Program Director
Degrees: Bachelor and Master's Degree in Interpreting and Translation Università degli Studi di Bologna - SSLIMIT.

MA German - University of Wisconsin, Madison

PhD German - University of Wisconsin, Madison
Bio: 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 School 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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Faculty Profile: Rita Morandi