Giuseppe Formato PhD is an associated researcher at ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute, where he served as a postdoctoral fellow and as a visiting researcher in its Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology. Dr. Formato also served as Senior Lecturer at Lesley University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences where he developed and taught courses in foreign languages and cinema. During that time, he also served as a fellow at the Camões Institute in the Consulate General of Portugal of Boston through its Fernão Mendes Pinto Program. He has been an invited speaker to high school classrooms, universities, and conferences in Europe and North America, in addition to being published in scholarly journals.  Dr. Formato is currently a public high school world language teacher outside of Boston and a foreign correspondent on language education issues for a newspaper in the Azores. Some areas of research interests include critical language pedagogy, language acquisition, linguistic ideologies, the Portuguese-speaking diaspora of New England, and bilingual education.