Linguae Europaeae

by Eda Derhemi | Editor: Jessica Nicholas (PhD Candidate in French); photos: Kathryn Nicholas This is Part Two of a two-part series.  Click here to read Part One! Bio: Eda Derhemi (PhD in Communication, 2003) is a lecturer in the department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, and an adjunct assistant professor of Communications in the ICR. She completed her undergraduate studies in Linguistics and Literature at the University of Tirana, Albania, and her graduate studies in Illinois. She has extensive teaching and research experience in Italian Language, Linguistics and Media Studies. She worked as a correspondent journalist for Deutsche Welle, and is a regular writer of opinion pieces in the main Albanian media. Her interests are: linguistic endangerment and language death, minority languages and ethnicity in the EU, language of the media and propaganda, Balkan and Mediterranean studies, Arbëresh and Arvanitika. Breathless, I enter in the main area of Hydra’s p...

Image Source: http://www.studio52.gr/info_en.asp?infoID=00000cxv by Eda Derhemi | Bio: Eda Derhemi (PhD in Communication, 2003) is an adjunct assistant professor of Communications and lecturer of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. She completed her undergraduate studies in Linguistics and Literature at the University of Tirana, Albania and her graduate studies in Illinois. She has extensive teaching and research experience in Language and Media Studies. She worked for many years as a correspondent journalist for Deutsche Welle, and is a regular writer of opinion pieces in the main Albanian media. Her interests are: linguistic endangerment and language death, minority languages and ethnicity in the EU, language of the media and propaganda, Balkan and Mediterranean studies, Arbëresh and Arvanitika. Image Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvanitika This is the second year I have traveled to Greece to study Arvanites, a population of Albanian origin that has lived in Gree...