Emily Meneghin

Emily Meneghin (she/lei) currently teaches language courses and Italian for Study Abroad as a Lecturer of Italian at Penn State. She also chairs the Italian Teaching Community through the Scheyer Institute, which connects any faculty interested in Italian to collaborate on new initiatives and pedagogy. Her Master’s thesis, Space & Social Interaction Among Teenagers in Varese, Italy, is an ethnography study interviewing adolescents about how they interact with each other at school, online, and outside of school. Her research interests include: contemporary Italy, social psychology and belonging, and community histories, as well as representation in media, identity and hegemony, and inclusivity and diversity.

Publications and Conferences:

• “L’italiano vero non si trova a Treccani, nun aje capit, حبيبتي?”, AAIS Conference, Sorrento, June 2024.
• Creative Review of Ghali. Pizza Kebab Vol. 1, Italian Quarterly (Rutgers University), 60.237-238 (Summer-Fall 2023).
• “SKAM and SKAM Italia Adapting a Transmedia Format Across a Transnational Media and Cultural Landscape,” L’avventura: International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes, 1 (2021): 141-154. Https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.17397/101282
• “SKAM and SKAM Italia: Translating the Media-Saturated Teenage Experience,” Voices Conference, Italian Graduate Society, Rutgers University (Newark, NJ), November 2019.
• “SKAM and SKAM Italia: Translating the Media-Saturated Teenage Experience,” Forbidden, Forgotten, Erased: Exposing Absences, Graduate Conference, The School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Maryland, April 2019.
• Book review of Elena Past, Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human, EuropeNow: A Journal of Research & Art, 2019.https://www.europenowjournal.org/2020/08/02/italian-ecocinema-beyond-the-humanby-elena-past/
• “Identity and Belonging for the G2 in a Heterogenous Contemporary Italy,” Mediating Italy in Global Culture Summer School, The Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, Italy, June 2018.