As an Italian native, I join the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies at UBC, as a qualified teacher of Italian  to speakers of other languages; I have been lecturing Italian as an L2 at the University of Bologna, for many years now.

In the past two years, I have also become an Associate Lecturer of Italian at Birkbeck, University of London.
In 2017 I was awarded a position in the United States as a Fulbright Visiting Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, where I taught introductory Italian language courses and a course on “The Culture of Italian American Emigration”.

Interests

Since 2020 I have been the co-founder of Strade Dorate, “Osservatorio di Letteratura e Cultura Italo Americana”. Strade Dorate originated from the idea of collecting and reuniting the production of the Italian- American diaspora in one portal and making it available to the Italian public. Interviews, narrative and poetry reviews, writers portray and unpublished works are released weekly with the final goal of making the Italian readers aware of an unknown and still neglected page of our national culture.

My area of expertise includes the literary production of the Italian-American diaspora and its related themes of cultural conflict, crossings, and ethnic identity formation. It extends onto the literary representations of gender violence, such as rape or female discrimination, as seen in the Italian American literary tradition. Moreover, my academic interest covers the linguistic aspects that feature the process of learning Italian as an L2 and as an LS, such as the teaching of phonology and phonetics, the use of educational technologies, the employment of co-operational strategies, and the application of narrative in language courses.

Current projects

• “Unsafe Bodies. A Kleinian Study of patriarchy and violence in Italian American female-authored writing” (2020-2025)
• Since 2020 I have been the co-founder of Strade Dorate, “Osservatorio di Letteratura e Cultura Italo Americana”. Strade Dorate originated from the idea of collecting and reuniting the production of the Italian- American diaspora in one portal and making it available to the Italian public. Interviews, narrative and poetry reviews, writers portray and unpublished works are released weekly with the final goal of making the Italian readers aware of an unknown and still neglected page of our national culture. https://www.stradedorate.org
• Anthology of Italian migrant female writers

Courses of Italian

DiversITALY: Elementary Italian with Inclusive Language and Gender Equality Volume 1, Kendall Hunt, 2022. (contribution)

9 Passi nove, interactive multimedia course for teaching Italian – A1 Level, Juan Carlos Barbero Bernal, Chiara Businaro, Valmori Michela, CLUEB, Bologna, 2008.

9 Passi nove, interactive multimedia course for teaching Italian – A2 Level Juan Carlos Barbero Bernal, Chiara Businaro, Valmori Michela, CLUEB, 2009

Authored Books

Rosa, La storia mai raccontata di una giovane immigrate italoamericana, Capire Edizioni, Forlì, 2019

Rosa, The untold secrets of an Italian American immigrant and her hidden secrets, Booksprint, Salerno, 2018

Nuovo Mondo, in Adelaide Literary Magazine, October 2019

Articles

Villella, D. & Valmori, M., (2023) “Rethinking identity with second-generation Italian female writers”, Dandelion: Postgraduate Arts Journal and Research Network11(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/ddl.9021

Valmori Michela, Riflessioni kleiniane su paranoia e libido in Floridiana di Emanuele Pettener, in “Campi Immaginabili”, 66-67/2022, Rubbettino Editore, pp. 498-514.

Valmori Michela, Dalla storia al memoir. Rosa, la storia mai raccontata di una giovane immigrata italoamericana, in Altreitalie, 62/2021, pp. 113-119.

Valmori Michela, Chiusa Sclafani, in Italian Americana, Vol. XXXVIII No. 1 Winter 2020, Loyola University.

From Meldola to Litchfield, Connecticut, in “Grande Emigrazione”. Meldola-Litchfield, Romagna- Connecticut, Italia-Stati Uniti. Una storia transnazionale. / A community during the “Great Migration”. Meldola-Litchfield, Romagna-Connecticut, Italy-United States: a transnational story. Edited by Maurizio Ridolfi, Cesena Società Editrice “Il Ponte Vecchio”, 2019.

Interview to Frances Baldi, in “Grande Emigrazione”. Meldola-Litchfield, Romagna-Connecticut, Italia-Stati Uniti. Una storia transnazionale. / A community during the “Great Migration”. Meldola- Litchfield, Romagna-Connecticut, Italy-United States: a transnational story. Edited by Maurizio Ridolfi, Cesena Società Editrice “Il Ponte Vecchio”, 2019.

What if the Beat Generation started earlier than Kerouac? Contrapunctual Reading of On the Road and its literary indebtedness, [Humanities]-Special Issue-Beat Generation Writers as Readers of World Literature, 2018.

A day with Antonia Sparano, Amici Journal, Chicago, 2012.

• Awarded a FULBRIGHT DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORSHIP in ITALIAN STUDIES by FULBRIGHT COMMISSION, University of Notre Dame, 2017/2018
• Awarded a scholarship as a Scholar at King’s College University, London – 2013/2014
• Awarded an international scholarship for Research at Exeter University – 2011
• Awarded an international scholarship at Caledonian University, Glasgow, 1998/1999