Professor Francesco Goglia

Biography:

I did my undergraduate studies in English, Spanish Literature and Linguistics at the University of Padua, during which I spent a year abroad at the University of Kent (Canterbury). This is where I developed my interest in sociolinguistics, and back in Italy my undergraduate thesis was awarded the first prize by the Office for Bilingualism and Foreign Languages of Bolzano (Italy). My interest in multilingualism deepened and I returned to England for my MA in Linguistics at the University of Manchester - sponsored by a graduate studies studentship offered by the University of Padua. After my MA, I went on to complete my PhD in Linguistics at the University of Manchester with the support of a Mont Follick Scholarship. During my postgraduate studies in Manchester, I also worked as an Italian teacher for various colleges, Manchester City Council and the Italian Consulate. After few months as research assistant in the project Convergence and Linguistic Areas (University of Manchester), in 2006, I was appointed lecturer in Italian at the University of Exeter. I became senior lecturer in 2012 and was promoted to Associate Professor in Migration and Multilingualism in 2021.

I would be happy to consider supervising research students in the following areas:

- Multilingualism and Migration

- Language Maintenance and Shift

- Language Contact

- Minority Languages

- Language Attitudes and Ideologies

- Language Policy

- Family Language Policy

- Intercultural Communication

- Multilingualism in schools

- Italian sociolinguistics