Research Interests or Specialties
Minority language maintenance
- Italian and Italian dialects in Toronto
Linguistic variation and change in contact languages
- Italian koine in North America (Italiese)
Contrastive linguistics
- Sicilian and other Italian dialect varieties contrasted with Italian and English
- Italian – English contrasts
- Italian – Slovak contrasts
Language and technology
- Romance languages on Facebook
Dialect contact and mixing
- Sicilian and other Italian dialects in literary pastiche
Minority Literatures
- Sicilian dialect poetry
Language and Identity
- Italians in North America
Research Projects
Publications