Monica Merli

Monica Merli graduated with a laurea in modern literature, after which she began to specialize in Italian as a second language teaching, receiving DITALS certification from Università per Stranieri di Siena, an ITALS Master's from the Università Ca' Foscari in Venice and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Florence.

Merli taught language didactics for the Middlebury College Master's program in Florence and she was also hired to teach foreign-language teaching in the TFA courses at the University Of Florence. At present Merli is teaching Italian language at the Florence campus of Gonzaga University and NYU in Florence. Some of her contributions focus on teaching monolingual Anglo-American classes.