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Webinar Description
When:
Tuesday, October 21st at 1:00 PM ET
Presented By:
Enza Antenos, Associate Professor of Italian and Director of the BA in Language, Business & Culture - Montclair State University
Dennis Looney, Independent Scholar & Consultant in Higher Education, Humanities, and International Education
About This Webinar:
Professor Enza Antenos, Montclair State University, in conversation with Dennis Looney on how and why she and her colleagues established the degree in Language, Business, Culture at Montclair State University – a program that creates dialogue across languages, professional fields, and global career pathways. Discover how building cross-campus and community partnerships can expand the reach and impact of language study, with a special tour of the Career Hub for International Language Learning.
Unable to attend the session? You can access the recording on Vista Higher Learning professional development webinar page.
Get To Know Our Speakers
Enza Antenos
Associate Professor of Italian and Director of the BA in Language, Business & Culture - Montclair State University
Enza Antenos is Associate Professor of Italian and Director of the BA in Language, Business & Culture at Montclair State University, where she develops initiatives that connect language study to wider professional contexts. She also serves as Teaching and Curriculum Coordinator for the Italian School at Middlebury College Language Schools.
Her scholarship explores Italian language acquisition, teacher professional development, technology-enhanced language learning, and interdisciplinary program design, with a consistent emphasis on authentic, community-engaged learning. She has directed study abroad programs in Italy and Morocco, and with the Coccia Institute, she created and chairs Teaching Italian, a national professional development program now in its 18th year.
Dr. Antenos champions models of language learning that extend beyond traditional departmental boundaries, creating opportunities for students to apply their linguistic and cultural skills in meaningful, real-world settings.
Dennis Looney
Independent Scholar & Consultant in Higher Education, Humanities, and International Education
Dennis Looney served as director of the Office of Programs and director of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages at the Modern Language Association from 2014 to 2021. From 1986 to 2013, he taught Italian at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was chair of the Department of French and Italian for eleven years and assistant dean of humanities for three years. In 2022, he received the James E. Alatis Founder’s Award from the Joint National Committee for Languages for “a lifetime of exceptional contributions to advancing language and international education,” and the ACTFL Wilga Rivers Award for Leadership in World Language Education.
Publications include Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance (Wayne State University Press, 1996), which received honorable mention, MLA Marraro-Scaglione Award in Italian Literary Studies, 1996-97; and Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011), which received the American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize (general category) in 2011.
