Introducing the FUS Faculty: Ariane Mottale

Adjunct Lecturer of Modern Languages (Italian)

Ph.D. Insubria University, Italy (ongoing)
B.A. Franklin University Switzerland

Office: Kaletsch Campus, Office 4
Phone: +41 91 986 53 07
E-mail: amottale@fus.edu

Ariane Mottale joined Franklin in 2020 as adjunct lecturer of Italian. She is pursuing a Ph.D. at Insubria University where she is writing a dissertation on the history of the idea of Italian irredentism between the Risorgimento and the interwar period. Her research focuses on the development of the definition of “irredentismo” and its connection to the 19th and 20th century notions of Italy. Her research interests center around the History of Ideas, Italian History, and Fascism. In addition to teaching at FUS, she has been a non-stipendiary fellow at Insubria University since 2018.

Prior to joining Franklin, Ariane Mottale worked as a freelance translator from Italian to English for art and history exhibitions in Italy.

2024-2025 Courses

HIS 241T	Modern Türkiye: Dreams of Modernity	FALL 2024
Turkey-Türkiye has become once more a major player on the international scene, while seemingly changing constantly. What are the origins and future perspectives of the modern Turkish Republic, and how are Turks see themselves? In order to answer these questions, the course starts from the heyday of the old Ottoman Empire, subsequently analyzing its crisis and decline, and the birth of the modern post-Ottoman states after World War I, with the Republic of Turkey-Türkiye as one of the main heir states of the Empire. The course focuses on the transformations that led to contemporary Türkiye from the Young Turks and the time of Atatürk to the current President Erdoğan. ‘Dreams of Modernity’ provides an understanding of Turkish nation-building process, highlighting the continuous political and social transformations of one of the major international actors in the Middle-Eastern and North-African area (MENA).
ITA 100	Introductory Italian, Part I	FALL 2024
Designed for students with no prior knowledge of Italian. ITA 100 employs immersive experiential learning pedagogy, providing an introduction to the essentials of Italian grammar, vocabulary, and culture. The acquisition of aural/oral communication skills will be stressed and, as such, the predominant language of instruction will be Italian. By the end of the course students will achieve proficiency at the A1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Students are expected to acquire the basic knowledge of the written and spoken structures. Students are expected to read and comprehend short passages in Italian and to draft simple compositions / dialogues. Project-based assignments will be designed to foster practical communication skills and encourage efforts towards increased student integration in the local Italian-speaking community. Whenever possible, students will be encouraged to participate actively in local initiatives, festivals, events and to apply the skills they are mastering in class to their co-curricular learning on and off campus
ITA 300	Advanced Italian, Part I	FALL 2024
For students who have completed at least two years of college-level language studies or the equivalent. This course offers cultural readings from a variety of sources, including some literary pieces, as well as magazine and newspaper articles reflecting the contemporary scene in the countries where the language is spoken. Vocabulary expansion and development of techniques of expression are accomplished through oral and written exercises.
ITA 101	Introductory Italian, Part II	SPRING 2025
ITA 101 employs immersive experiential learning pedagogy, providing an introduction to the essentials of Italian grammar, vocabulary, and culture. This course is designed for students who have completed one semester of Italian language study. The course provides an introduction to the essentials of Italian grammar, vocabulary, and culture. The acquisition of aural/oral communication skills will be stressed and, as such, the predominant language of instruction will be Italian. By the end of the course students will achieve proficiency at the A2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Students will be expected to be proficient in the written and spoken usage of basic linguistic structures. Students will be expected to read and comprehend short passages in Italian and to draft simple compositions / dialogues. Project-based assignments will be designed to foster practical communication skills and encourage efforts towards increased student integration in the local Italian-speaking community. Whenever possible, students will be encouraged to participate actively in local initiatives, festivals, events and to apply the skills they are mastering in class to their co-curricular learning on and off campus.

Publications:

Scenes from the End: The Last Days of World War II: La testimonianza di uno storico. Atti del DiSUIT, forthcoming.

Review of 100 sguardi sul Grigionitaliano, by Gianna Conrad. Quaderni d’italianistica 39, no. 1 (May 2018): 257-259.