Diana C. Silverman, PhD
Selected Publications
"The Poverty Crisis in Higher Education," Academe Blog, The Blog of Academe Magazine, The American Association of University Professors (19 July, 2022).
Luminoso: Learning Italian with Cultural Stars (New York: Printed by Kindle Direct Publishing) 2021. All profits from the book are assigned to EMERGENCY USA to fund medical care for survivors of war and poverty.
"Marriage and Political Violence in the Chronicles of the Medieval Veneto," Speculum 86:3 (July 2011): 652-687.
Conferences and Presentations
"Toward an Equitable Italian Classroom: Arts-Based Language Exercises Reflective of Italy’s Historical Diversity." Rutgers University and Farmingdale State College, SUNY, Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Language and Culture Classroom, Conference Over Zoom. April 2022.
"Queer Identities in Language Pedagogy." University of Toronto Queer(ing) Contemporary Italian Cultures: Home and Beyond, Virtual Symposium. April 2022.
"The visual arts as sparks to language learning." Northeast Modern Language Association, Online. March 2021.
"Language Acquisition as Media Studies, and The Inclusion of Historical Italian Diversity in the Language Classroom." Canadian Association for Italian Studies [Canceled], Sorrento, Italy. June 2020 [Accepted].
"Language Acquisition as Media Studies and the Diversity of the Italian Mediterranean." Conference of the Mediterranean Studies Association, Rethymno, Crete. May 2019.
"Two Accessible Arts-Based Language Texts: A Convivial Open-Resource Spanish Book and a Star-Studded Italian Book with Profits for the Refugees in Sicily." Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Language as Communication and Literacy Conference: Bridging Languages and Cultures in the Modern Classroom. With Professor Alice B. Emery. January 2019.
"Toward effective word detectives: Italian through the arts." Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Italian, Cagliari, Sardegna. Invited talk. June 2018.
Monthly pro bono elementary Italian lesson with my book, Stellare: Learning Italian with Cultural Stars (2015), to raise awareness of EMERGENCY’s mobile health units at the sites of refugee landings in Sicily. Offices of EMERGENCY USA, New York, New York. 2017 – 2018.
Courses
- IT 111 Elementary Italian
- IT 112 Italian II