My work is in second language acquisition, strategies in foreign language learning and teaching, development of listening and comprehension skills, cross-cultural studies, twentieth-century Italian literature and film, intertextuality, and autobiography. Parola a te! Heinle, Cengage Learning, 2008. A vicenda: Lingua and A vicenda: Cultura, a second year Italian program, McGraw-Hill, 2008 Insieme: Review Grammar and Reader for second year Italian. McGraw-Hill, 2nd edition 1998. Taped Exercises for Basic and Intermediate Italian. McGraw-Hill, 2nd edition 2000. "Textual References in Leonardo Sciascia's Novel A Ciscuno il suo," Canadian Journal of Italian Studies, 1993.