Borbala Borbi) Gaspar earned her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching language use, pedagogy and an interdisciplinary minor in Italian literature) She also holds an MA degree in ELL UofA) and a B.A. degree in Teaching Italian as a Foreign language from Szeged, Hungary. She has been teaching Italian for more than thirteen years at all four undergraduate levels at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on how underrepresented) language learners maneuver through social and symbolic power as they gain agency, use their imagination and engage in pedagogies such as project-based learning, task based, multi)literacies, living literacies and social justice. Besides her teaching and research interest she has been regularly organizing Italian movie nights, Cooking nights, and Italian mini poster conferences for learners of Italian with the support and generous funding received from the French and Italian Department and the Student Faculty Interaction Grant.