Andrea R. Leone-Pizzighella

Andrea R. Leone-Pizzighella

Eurac Research, Bozen-Bolzano

Andrea R. Leone-Pizzighella (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is a discourse analyst and educational linguist with an interest in language ideologies and policies in secondary education contexts. She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Eurac Research in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, where she is developing an Open Access website of teaching videos and transcripts from her fieldwork at two middle schools. Her research at these middle schoolsfocused on school rituals, classroom interaction, and language ideologiesis a "prequel" to her PhD research at three secondary schools in Umbria, where she studied the ways that students are socialized to participate in everyday school life. She discusses this research in her book, Discourses of Student Success: Language, Class, and Social Personae in Italian Secondary Schools (Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology, 2021). She welcomes correspondence at aleonepizzighella@eurac.edu.

Riconoscere e contrastare il narcisismo accademico, le echo chambers e i circoli viziosi della ricerca