Katy Prantil is an instructor of Italian and the Director of the Italian Basic Language Program. She holds a Ph.D. in Italian (Romance Linguistics and Philology) from the University of Wisconsin - Madison (2017). She specializes in historical Italo-Romance linguistics and dialectology.

Research Interests

Italo-Romance morphosyntax

Socio-historical aspects of language change

Historical phonology in Romance varieties

Second language pedagogy

Courses Taught

Italian Reading and Conversation (ITA 2220)

Italian Grammar and Composition I & II (ITA 3420, 3421)

Elementary Italian 1-2 (ITA 1120-1121) 

Historical Romance Linguistics