Giuliana CACCIOLA
Giuliana Cacciola is currently involved in the international certification courses CILS – Certification of Italian as a Foreign Language, a qualification recognized worldwide, and she is a teacher of Italian for foreign learners (CDC A023), designed for teaching Italian as a second language (L2). She is also a teacher of English and of Foreign Languages and Cultures (CDC A22).
On June 28, 2000, she obtained a degree in Modern Foreign Languages and Literature, with flying colours (110 with honors), from the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Catania.
She holds a PhD in English and Anglo-American Studies, awarded in 2007 by the University of Catania. She was the recipient of a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) scholarship for a research period at LMU Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (Germany), where she also participated as a Visiting Professor in seminar and research activities at the Department of Comparative Literature, English Studies, and German Studies (2006–2007).
She has been carrying out academic teaching activities at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Catania since 2007, where she mainly teaches English for Scientific Purposes (ESP).
In 2005, she obtained the CEDILS certification in Teaching Italian to Foreigners from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She taught Italian as a second language (L2) to incoming ERASMUS students at the School of Italian for Foreigners at the University of Catania (2005–2006).
She has taught English Language and Comparative Literature at the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania, as well as German Literature at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature in Ragusa, within the Bachelor’s degree program in Comparative Studies and Language Mediation Sciences. She has also taught Comparative Literature and Literary Criticism in the Bachelor’s Degree in Multimedia Communication Sciences at Kore University of Enna.
In 2008, she served as an external expert in the PRIN scientific research project on the topic of the Vertriebenen, titled “20th Century Germany between Exiles and Migrations,” at the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania.
She was an external expert in English within the Master’s program “Job Placement and Career Guidance” (Placement in the European Union) at the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Catania (2014).
She was also an external expert in English in the scientific research project PiaCeRi – University Research Incentive Plan, titled “Elliptic Equations: Existence and Qualitative Properties & Distance Laboratory Teaching,” within Work Package 4 “Distance Learning and University,” at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Catania (July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2022).
Since 2024, she has been a coordinating tutor at the Higher School for Teacher Education (ASFI), a Special Teaching Structure of the University of Catania, responsible for the didactic and organizational coordination of teacher training.
Essays:
• On Primo Levi and Ruth Klüger, semiannual journal of modern philology “Le Forme e la Storia” (Rubbettino Editore), University of Catania; series “Labirinti”, Department of Literary, Linguistic and Philological Studies, University of Trento.
• On Paul Celan, semiannual journal “Jacques e i suoi quaderni”, University of Pisa.
• On Gender, the Shoah, and forms and functions of memory: “Proteo Series” (Artemide), Department of Linguistic Studies, University of Salerno.
• Editorial work on translations, four-monthly journal of Comparative Literature and Literary Criticism “Allegoria”, directed by Romano Luperini (Palumbo).
Monographs:
• Genres of Memory and Gendered Memory. Primo Levi, Ruth Klüger and the Shoah, Giuliana Cacciola, Bonanno Editore, Acireale–Rome, 2014. ISBN 978-88-96950-85-2.