Teachers on Teaching

Artful Teaching for Meaningful Learning

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Mission Statement

Our mission is to deliver engaging, practical, high quality world language professional development. Collectively, we have over forty years of teaching experience spanning from middle school through the doctoral level. Our large conferences and mini-workshops provide attendees with tried and tested activities for immediate use, ideas to build upon in the future, and valuable networking opportunities. By collaborating in a supportive learning community of like-minded teachers, we can put not only the content, but ourselves, into content-based experiential learning.

About This Site

This is Teachers on Teaching’s main public facing website. On this website, you can join our mailing list, find out about upcoming conferences and workshops, and download materials presented at past events. It is updated and maintained by our webmaster, Julie Van Peteghem.

About Us

Monica Calabritto

Monica Calabritto is an Associate Professor of Italian language and literature at Hunter College, CUNY and the Director of the Italian Specialization within the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She has been teaching for more than twenty years a variety of courses, including Italian language at all levels, and Renaissance Italian and European literature and culture at the undergraduate and graduate level (M.A. and Ph.D.). Her classes are student-centered, and emphasize acquisition and experiential learning. Monica is also interested in integrating visual and verbal media in her teaching by using emotions and emotional codes. Her scholarly research focuses on the history of medicine and law, with a particular focus on early modern insanity and melancholy. Monica received her undergraduate degree (laurea) in Classics from the University of Pisa, Italy, and her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Kelly Paciaroni
Italian Teacher, Baldwin High School
Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Kelly Paciaroni has ten years of experience teaching all levels of Italian. Her special area of interest is generating spontaneous discourse in the student-centered classroom through the careful use of compelling arguments and the Socratic Method. Kelly received her B.A. in Italian and English from Tulane University. She also has a B.S. in Marketing from Bocconi University in Milan and an M.A. in Italian from Queens College. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Comparative Literature Department (Italian Specialization) at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Julie Van Peteghem

Julie Van Peteghem is Assistant Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages at Hunter College, CUNY, where she teaches courses in medieval literature and culture, Italian language, and translation. Her research and pedagogy focus on the ways readers respond to the classics (be it works of classical literature, or the writings of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, the Tre Corone of Italian literature), and the role of technology in reading, writing, and language learning. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Digital Dante, a curated online resource of materials on Dante’s works and world, and together with Columbia University Libraries she created Intertextual Dante, an interactive digital tool to read Dante’s Divine Comedy alongside its sources. She received her undergraduate degree (Licenciaat) in Latin and Greek literature and linguistics from Ghent University, Belgium, a M.A. in Literary Studies from the University of Leuven, Belgium, and her Ph.D. in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.