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Carmela B. Scala
Carmela Bernadetta Scala
received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York. Her main field of research today is Second Language Acquisition and promoting DEI in the language and culture classes. She is also interested in Baroque literature, fairytales, folklore, and dialect literature. She holds the positions of Director of the Italian Language Program and Study Abroad Program Director at Rutgers University. Dr. Scala is also the President of the Foundation for Innovation and Excellence in Italian Teaching (FIEIT), an organization dedicated to advancing pedagogical practices and professional development for Italian language educators. Dr. Scala is the founder and chief editor of Language Teaching and Technology (LTT). She has won an entrepreneurial grant to develop a professional development workshop entirely online for Italian teachers, as well as many other small grants to create innovative online language courses. She has recently published a book, From Design to Teaching: Granting Our Students an Engaging Learning Experience Online (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021); an article, How to Foster Equality in the Language Classroom, in Rhetoric and Sociolinguistics in Times of Global Crisis (IGI Global, 2021); Replacing the 'melting pot' with a 'colorful mixed salad' in the language classroom, in Global and Transformative Approaches Toward Linguistic Diversity (IGI, 2022); and an edited volume, How To Actively Engage Our Students in the Language Classes (Vernon Press, 2022). Last year she received three grants from the Italian Embassy in New York. These grants were instrumental in creating professional development courses for Italian teachers in the United States and Italy, with a focus on social justice, artificial intelligence (AI) in the language classroom, and sustainability in the language class.
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