Paola Morgavi

Paola Morgavi, Senior Lecturer, holds a Laurea in Lettere from the University of Genoa, Italy. Born and resident in Italy till 1998, she worked as a High School teacher (Italian and Latin Language and Literature), translator of books from French and covered organization and coordination roles in industry.

Since her arrival in the United States, she has been working in education, cooperating with the Educational Office of the Consulate General of Italy and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura.

In 2004 she received her MA in Art Education from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She collaborates with the Museum Education Department of the Art Institute of Chicago as an independent researcher.

Her primary interests are modern and contemporary Italian culture; art and architecture; language pedagogy (exploration of multidisciplinary and multimedia frameworks), second language acquisition, curriculum development.

She is a Chicago Architecture Foundation docent for the two Loop walking tours, for which, in 2001, she developed the Italian version.

At Northwestern, she is currently a language coordinator for Italian.

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