Matteo Michele Catania is a Ph.D. candidate in French Linguistics and a Lecturer of French and Francophone Cultures and Literatures at the University of International Studies of Rome. He is also a certified DELF-DALF examiner at the Institut Français Centre Saint-Louis in Rome. His research focuses on regional languages spoken in France within pedagogical and language teaching contexts. Catania’s academic interests include minority languages, French sociolinguistics, variationist linguistics, regional varieties, and Francophone literatures. He has presented his research at international conferences and seminars, including those hosted by Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Université de Rouen and Université Laval (Canada).
In 2024, he published the article “Réalité et identité régionales. Analyse des discours épilinguistiques sur le français et l’occitan dans la province toulousaine : le cas de Gaillac”.