Enza Antenos

Enza Antenos is an Associate Professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Montclair State University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She directs the interdisciplinary BA in Language, Business & Culture (launched in 2019) and chairs the Teaching Italian professional development program developed with the Coccia Institute. Her research emphasizes curricular innovation in languages for specific purposes, experiential learning through internships, and digital literacy in language education, including social media and AI integration.

• PhD, University of Toronto, Canada

Her scholarship bridges academic study with practical application, focusing on authentic learning environments and synergies between academia and target-language communities. Notable initiatives include Montclair's CHILL (Career Hub for International Language Learning) under a Mellon Foundation grant, connecting language education to professional opportunities. Recent publications highlight her leadership in interdisciplinary language pedagogy and technology-enhanced teaching.

Dr. Antenos directs faculty-led study abroad programs in Italy and Morocco and serves as Teaching and Curriculum Coordinator at Middlebury College Language Schools' Scuola italiana. She pioneered Twitter as a language teaching tool in 2008 and maintains active digital repositories for innovative teaching resources.