Graziana Lazzarino is Professor of Italian at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is a native of Genoa, received her Laurea from the University of Genoa, and has taught at various European schools and American colleges and universities. She is also the author of In giro per l’Italia: A Brief Introduction to Italian, Da capo: A Review of Grammar, and Per tutti i gusti.

Maria Cristina Peccianti, a native of Siena, received her Laurea from the University of Florence and currently teaches at the University for Foreigners of Siena. She also teaches courses on assessment theory and practice for the Masters program in Italian instruction and pedagogy at the University of Padova. She has also planned and directed distance-learning courses in Latin America and Spain. She is the author and editor of books on linguistic education, including Grammatica italiana per la scuola media (Le Monnier, 2002), and Italian as a second language, including Grammatica d’uso della lingua italiana (Giunti, 1997), as well as articles and essays on programming, examination, and assessment of educational materials. She was a co-author on In giro per l’Italia: A Brief Introduction to Italian and the fifth edition of Prego! An Invitation to Italian.

Janice M. Aski is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the undergraduate Italian language program at The Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D. in Italian from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997. Her research is in foreign language pedagogy and teaching methodology, as well as Italian Romance linguistics (more specifically, Italian historical phonology and morphology).

Andrea Dini, a native of Prato, received his Laurea cum laude in Letters form the University of Florence and his Ph.D. in Italian Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a minor in Second-Language Acquisition. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Italian at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where he coordinates the Lower Division Language Program. His areas of specialization include Medieval and Contemporary Italian Literature, and Pedagogy. He was a co-author on In giro per l’Italia: A Brief Introduction to Italian and the fifth edition of Prego! An Invitation to Italian.