Livia Novi

Livia Novi serves as a Lecturer for Special Assignments at the University of Münster's Language Center, coordinating Italian courses and UNIcert® examinations while advising Italian Studies students at the Romance Languages Department. Born in Rome (1965), she brings decades of cross-institutional experience from Münster, Bayreuth, Osnabrück, and Munich's Adult Education Center where she headed the Romance Languages Department (2011-2020).

Her educational foundation includes:

• Master of Arts in History and Literature (University of Osnabrück, 1994)
• Master's in Didactics of Italian as Foreign Language (Ca' Foscari University Venice, 2011)

Novi's research bridges Italian language pedagogy for German speakers with migration history and intercultural communication. Her work examines textbook evolution, language policy frameworks, and flipped classroom methodologies while analyzing Italian diaspora communities through historical and sociological lenses. Current projects focus on autonomous learning strategies and certification systems.

Publication trends reveal a strategic shift from 1999-2007 migration studies toward 2012-2023 language education specialization. Recent works dissect intercultural competence development in teaching materials, German-Italian contrastive analysis, and policy implementation for Italian language certification, demonstrating consistent interdisciplinary rigor across 15 scholarly contributions.

Professional engagement includes board membership in ADI (Associazione dei Docenti d'Italiano in Germania) since 2012 and lecturer roles in Ca' Foscari University's Master's program (2015-2021). Her advisory work spans curriculum design for cross-level Italian courses (A1-C1), subject-specific instruction for humanities students, and teacher training coordination across German educational institutions.

Novi collaborates extensively through research networks including the Essen-Duisburg 'Living Many Worlds' project (2001-2003) on migrant youth experiences, while maintaining active roles in language certification development and textbook consultation for German-speaking Italian learners.