CV Summary
Giuseppe Formato, PhD, has served as Senior Lecturer at Lesley University, where he developed and taught courses in world languages and cinema. Concurrently, he served as a fellow at the Camões Institute within the Consulate General of Portugal in Boston through the Fernão Mendes Pinto Program. Dr. Formato has been an invited speaker at numerous high schools, universities, and conferences across Europe and North America. His scholarly contributions include publications in academic journals and participation on scientific committees globally. In 2024, he received the Joseph Moore Award for Dedication to the Profession. In 2025, he received the K-12 Teacher of the Year Award from the American Organization of Teachers of Portuguese. In addition, Dr. Formato is an associated researcher at the ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute, where he has held positions as a postdoctoral fellow and visiting researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology. His career also includes teaching World Languages in public high schools within the Greater Boston area and has served as a foreign correspondent for O Baluarte de Santa Maria, an Azorean periodical. His research interests include cultural studies, language acquisition, socliolinguistic ethnography, language ideology and the Azorean and Southern Italian diasporae of New England. Dr. Formato’s poetry has also been published in Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-North American Letters and Studies at Brown University. In 2025 he joined the research project Exporting Portugal: Estado Novo cultural diplomacy and rebranding strategies in the United States (1933-1974).
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