Dr Michela Prevedello
Teaching Fellow in Italian
- Italian Section
- Department of European Languages and Cultures
- School of Literatures, Languages and Culture
Contact details
- Email: mprevede@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 3.31
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
Office Hours by Teams Appointment – Th 1:10-2pm; F 12:10-1pm
Background
Before joining the University of Edinburgh, Michela Prevedello held teaching positions in Italian Studies at McGill University in Montreal, at the University of Udine in Italy, at the University of Bristol and Bath in the UK. Her research focuses on: Italian women writers; feminism and gender studies; the pedagogy of Italian language; methodology and innovation in foreign language teaching.
Qualifications
Michela Prevedello holds a PhD in contemporary Italian literature (University of Bristol). Previosly she has completed a master’s degree in teaching Italian as a foreign language (University of Udine).
Undergraduate teaching
Italian language seminars and tutorials at all levels (Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced).
Modules on Italian culture and contemporary Italian literature.
Research summary
Italian women writers especially 20th and 21st centuries
Feminist theories
Gender studies
Pedagogy of Italian language
Language learning in higher education
Prevedello Michela, 2019. “Introduzione”. In Femminismo e femminismi Scrittrici italiane dall’Ottocento al XXI secolo, ed. by Sandra Parmegiani, and Michela Prevedello, Florence: Società Editrice Fiorentina, I-XX.
Parmegiani, Sandra and Prevedello, Michela, eds., 2019. Femminismo e femminismi Scrittrici italiane dall’Ottocento al XXI secolo. Florence: Società Editrice Fiorentina.
Prevedello, Michela 2016. The Impossibility of Motherhood in Oriana Fallaci’s Lettera a un bambino mai nato, Intervalla, special volume 1, ed. by Laura Lazzari and Joy Charnley, 22-34.
Prevedello, Michela 2013. Il maschile contro il femminile nella novella dello scolare e la vedova (VIII, 7) di Boccaccio Mascolinità all’italiana: cinema, teatro e letteratura, ed. by Renato Ventura, 55-71, Cuneo: Nerosubianco Edizioni.