Franco Pierno

Associate Chair - Graduate
Carr Hall, 2nd floor, 100 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 1J4
italian.grad@utoronto.ca

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Biography

FRANCO PIERNO (Laurea in Storia della lingua, Pavia; Doctorat en linguistique et philologie romanes, Strasbourg; Habilitation en Linguistique Italienne, Strasbourg) is a Full Professor (Italian Linguistics) and an  "Accademico della Crusca" (Florence).  Before coming to Toronto, he taught at the universities of Strasbourg, Basel, and Neuchâtel. He has also been invited as Visiting Researcher by the following academic institutions: John Carter Brown Library (Brown University; Visiting Fellow); "Fondation Maison Sciences de l'Homme" (Paris; "Directeur d'Études Associé"); Universität Dresden (Senior Fellow).