Education:

Ph.D., Department of Comparative Studies, Florida Atlantic University, Florida, USA, 2019
M.A., Department of Italian Studies, University of Connecticut, CT, USA, 2015

M.A. + B.A. (combined) Department of Humanities, University of Federico II, Italy, 2003

Other Diplomas& Certificates:

Graduate Certificate in Film and Culture - Florida Atlantic University D. F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, 2017.

Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae:

Vincenza holds a PhD in Comparative Studies from Florida Atlantic University. She has taught Italian as a foreign language and Italian Cinema at the University of Connecticut and Florida Atlantic University, both face-to-face and online. In 2018 she was a fellow at the Istanbul Studies Center (Kadir Has University). In 2020, in collaboration with the Department of Linguistics at Boğaziçi University, she produced a documentary on elderly Deaf people's life testimonies, as part of the EU Horizon 2020-funded Sigh-Hub Project. She is also creator, co-screenwriter, and co-producer of "My FlorÌta," a docu-film on the Italian community in South Florida.

Research Interests:

• Language Teaching through an Interdisciplinary Approach
• Language Maintenance (Neapolitan variant); Ethnography and Documentary

Publications:

• Iadevaia, V. (2023). Italian Floridians in South Florida: An oral history collection in the new new land. Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 60, 139-167.
• Iadevaia, V. (2021). Industry, migration and transnationalism: Three new dissertations about italian cinema and media studies. Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, 9(2), 295-301 doi: https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00070_7

Talks / Presentations:

• Italy in Transit, On the Making of the Documentary Film My FlorÍta - Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 2025
• Turkish Language and Culture Program: Between Italy and Turkey: A Conversation with Serra Yılmaz – Boğaziçi University, 2021.

Research Projects:

• Ongoing research on a Neapolitan dialect variant preserved within a migrant community in Long Island, NY.

• Documentary Film (creator, co-writer, co-producer) — "My FlorÌta" (2025): a docu-film on the Italian community in South Florida. World Premiere screening at the Italian Cultural Institute in Miami, FL.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33826235/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

• Documentary (producer)

"We were there ... We are here" (2020): a documentary based on interviews and life testimonies of elderly Deaf people. Part of the SIGN-HUB Project, funded by the European Commission (Horizon 2020). Screened at the 3rd Tokyo International Deaf Film Festival (TIDFF). https://thesignhub.eu/life-story/36

• Digital History Project — "Italian-American Oral History Collection" (in collaboration with I. Serra, V. Pezzullo & F. Tiberini). Sponsored by Florida Atlantic University and Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections

https://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau:oralhistories