Author Biographies

Anna Proudfoot

Anna Proudfoot grew up in Scotland with long periods spent in Italy. Since graduating from the University of London, she has taught Italian in further education, adult education and at university level in London, Cambridge, California and Oxford. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Italian and course leader for the European Culture and Society degree course at Oxford Brookes University. Her research interests lie in media and advertising in Italy. Anna has given several workshops on communicative language teaching activities for teachers of Italian in the UK, Italy and the USA and is the author of several Italian grammars:
Italian Grammar, Hodder Teach Yourself series, 3rd edition 2003
Modern Italian Grammar: a practical guide, Anna Proudfoot and Francesco Cardo, Routledge 1997
Modern Italian Grammar Workbook, Routledge 1999

Tania Batelli-Kneale

Tania Batelli-Kneale grew up in Venice, where she graduated at the University of Venice (Ca’ Foscari) in Lingue e Letterature Straniere. She moved to England in 1993. Tania is currently teaching at the University of Oxford’s Languages Centre. She previously taught at the University of Warwick (where she completed an MA in Italian Renaissance Literature) at the University of Reading, and at Oxford Brookes University. She has taught a variety of courses ranging from Italian for Art Historians and Italian for Classicists to Italian for Business, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Tania contributed to the multimedia course Italia 2000, Florence: Giunti 2000, and is co-author of Take off in Italian, Oxford: OUP 2001.

Anna Di Stefano

Anna di Stefano was born and brought up in Italy where, after her degree, she started her career teaching experimental courses in English. She came to the UK in 1975, where she has been involved in several teaching projects and delivering foreign languages to industry including distance learning. Anna currently works as Associate tutor for the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education and has written several Italian language books:
Take off in Italian, Tania Batelli-Kneale, Anna di Stefano, OUP 2001
Think & Talk Italian, Treveri Gennari, Daniela, Di Stefano, Anna, Powell, Margaret, Berlitz Publishing Ltd 1998.
Italian Today, Treveri Gennari, Daniela, Di Stefano, Anna, Powell, Margaret,
Berlitz Publishing Ltd 1998.
Giochi e rebus, Di Stefano, Anna, Oxford: Macmillan-Heinemann, 1998
Grammatichiamo!, Di Stefano, Anna Oxford: Macmillan-Heinemann, 1997
Italian Workbook, Di Stefano, Anna Berlitz Berlitz Publishing 1995

Daniela Treveri Gennari

Daniela Treveri Gennari was born and brought up in Rome where she graduated in Theatre Studies at the University of La Sapienza. Daniela moved to the UK in 1993 and is currently a Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, where she teaches on the Languages for Business and European Culture and Society degrees. She is currently researching aspects of Italian Cinema for her Doctorate at the University of Warwick, where she earlier completed an MA in Italian Theatre Studies. Daniela has given several workshops on communicative language teaching activities for teachers of Italian in the UK, Italy and the USA and is the author of several Italian language textbooks:

Think & Talk Italian, Treveri Gennari, Daniela, Di Stefano, Anna, Powell, Margaret, Berlitz Publishing 1998.
Italian Today, Treveri Gennari, Daniela, Di Stefano, Anna, Powell, Margaret, Berlitz Publishing 1998.
Dietro le quinte, Treveri Gennari, Daniela, Oxford Macmillan-Heinemann 1997.
Grammatichiamo 2, Treveri Gennari, Daniela, Oxford Macmillan-Heinemann 1997.
Parolissimo 1, Treveri Gennari, Daniela, Oxford Macmillan-Heinemann 1997.