Hello!
I am Cristina Villari and I studied Linguistics at the University of Bologna (Italy). After several scholarships abroad in the USA and Germany, I chose Berlin as my place to live.
I live here with my family: Thomas, my husband, and our three children, Luca (10), Alma (7) and Ben (2).
In Berlin, I did my doctorate at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Free University on the contact between Spanish and Quechua, an indigenous language of Peru.
During this time, I also taught as a lecturer at the University of Hamburg.
I enjoyed the field research in Peru and working with Katrin Singer with bilingual Quechua-Spanish children so much that I decided to pursue a teaching career.
From 2017 to 2019, I completed a master’s degree in secondary school teaching at Freie Universität.
After an internship and a traineeship at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Gymnasium in Berlin Pankow, I am now a teacher (Studienrätin) for the subjects Italian and Spanish.
I have been teaching Spanish at Carlo-Schmidt-Oberschule since summer 2022 and am the class teacher of a bilingual eighth grade (Spanish-German).
Feel free to contact me if you are interested in projects that bring university and school together.
The children are our future and we can achieve a lot with partnerships between university and school!
See you soon,
Dr. Cristina Villari
Education
Since Aug. 2022
- Teaching assistant at the Carlo-Schmidt-Oberschule (integrated secondary school with upper secondary level) (Berlin) in the subject Spanish
2019-2022
- Trainee teacher at Rosa-Luxemburg-Gymnasium (Berlin) in the subjects Italian and Spanish (1.10 – very good)
2017-2019
- Master’s degree for a teaching degree at grammar schools with a lateral entry profile in the subjects Italian and Spanish (1.4 – very good)
- Spanish subject advice during the practical semester with the subject advisor Mr. Aktaş
2011-2017
- Doctorate in Ancient American Studies at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin “Forms and Functions of Negation in Huaraz Quechua (Ancash, Peru): Analyzing the Interplay of Common Knowledge and Sociocultural Setting” (Dissertation: Magna cum Laude, Disputation: Summa cum Laude)
2006-2009
- M.A. in Linguistics (110/110 cum Laude) at the Università di Bologna “The middle voice in Ancash Quechua: the semantic functions of the suffix -ku”
2008-2009
- Overseas exchange at the University of California Santa Barbara
2007-2008
- Erasmus exchange at the Technical University of Berlin
2002-2006
- B.A. in Humanities (110/110 cum Laude) at the Università di Bologna “I marcatori conversazionali: le funzioni di magari. Un’analisi qualitativa di un corpus di parlato messinese”
1999-2002
- Liceo Scientifico “G. Seguenza” in Messina (Italy) (95/100)
Scholarships
2013-2016
- Scholarship for the doctoral thesis from the Latin American Literature Foundation
2011
- Scholarship for field research in Peru from the Institute for Latin American Studies (FU Berlin)
2010
- Leonardo Scholarship from the European Union
2009
- Scholarship from the Università di Bologna to write a Master’s thesis at the Ibero-American Institute (Berlin)
2008-2009
- Overseas Scholarship from the Università di Bologna for the exchange at the University of California Santa Barbara
2007-2008
- Erasmus scholarship from the European Union for the exchange at the Technische Universität Berlin
Reviews:
Íkala, Journal of Language and Culture, Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia).
2019Villari, Cristina (2019): La actitud de minimizar el conocimiento: La función social de la negación y del sufijo delimitativo en los cuentos quechuas. - In: Kerstin Störl, Eva Gugenberger, Teresa Valiente Catter (Eds.): La reciprocidad entre lengua y cultura en las sociedades andinas. Estudios de romanística, lingüística y antropología americana. Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang (Sprachen, Gesellschaften und Kulturen in Lateinamerika Lenguas, sociedades y culturas en Latinoamérica, 16), pp. 301–318. Link to publication.
Villari, Cristina (2019): Forms and Functions of Negation in Huaraz Quechua (Ancash, Peru): Analyzing the Interplay of Common Knowledge and Sociocultural Settings. Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften Lateinamerika-Institut (LAI), FU Berlin. Link to publication. Supervised by: Forms and Functions of Negation in Huaraz Quechua (Ancash, Peru): Analyzing the Interplay of Common Knowledge and Sociocultural Settings
Menacho López, Leonel & Villari, Cristina (2019): Cuando la educación familiar andina se interrumpe en la educación inicial: los pronoeis (Programas no Escolarizados de Educación Inicial) en la sierra de Ancash (Perú). - In: INDIANA N° 36 (1), pp. 141–154. Link to publication.
2017Villari, Cristina & Menacho López, Leonel Alexander (2017): La situación lingüística actual en Ancash como reflejo de la historia de la política lingüística del Perú. - In: INDIANA N°34 (1), pp. 129–147.
2016Villari, Cristina (2016): Observaciones sobre la situación socio-lingüística de Huaraz (Ancash, Perú). - In: INDIANA N°33 (1), pp. 91–107.
Valiente Catter, Teresa & Villari, Cristina (2016): Culturas y lenguas en contacto: Dinámicas culturales y lealtad lingüística entre quechua y castellano en la región andina. - In: INDIANA N°33 (1), pp. 9–25. Link to publication.
Singer Katrin & Villari, Cristina (2016): Uniendo burbujas de pensamiento. Búsqueda de diálogo interdisciplinario entre una lingüista y una geógrafa sobre el trabajo con niños en una región de quechuahablantes. - In: INDIANA 33 (1), pp. 69-90. Link to publication.
2015Villari, Cristina & Menacho López, Leonel (2015): La voz media en el quechua de Huaylas: las funciones semánticas del sufijo – ku. - In: APORTE SANTIAGUINO N°8 (2), pp. 301–318.
Villari, Cristina (2015): Crossing Aspectual Frontiers: Emergence, Evolution, and Interwoven Semantic Domains in South Conchucos Quechua Discourse. By Daniel J. Hintz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. 350. $52.95 (paper). Review. - In: International Journal of American Linguistics N°81 (1), pp. 148–149. Link to publication.
2019
- Reflections on the 2nd/3rd edition Spanish as a foreign language. Lecture at the 14th Romance Languages Study Day. FU Berlin, 18.01.2019.
2017
- El rol de los componentes socioculturales en el funcionamiento de la negación. Un análisis del habla del quechua de Huaraz. Italo-Americana 6, Università di Pavia, 07.10.2017.
2014
- Relación entre el contacto quechua-castellano y el conocimiento tradicional andino: los escenarios sociolinguísticos de las áreas urbanas y rurales de Huaraz. Invited lecture. University of Hamburg, 05.05.2014.
- El estado actual y futuro del quechua en contacto con el castellano. Latin America Institute FU Berlin, 19.06.2014 .
- La situación linguística actual en Ancash como reflejo de la historia de la política linguística del Perú. Lecture together with Leonel A. Menacho López. MERASA, Milan, 19.04.2014.
2013
- Warnings and negative commands: a case study in Huaraz Quechua. Workshop on negation at the Center for General Linguistics Berlin, 13.12.2013.
- Negation in Huaraz Quechua: a functional-descriptive approach. Lecture at the 4th STaPs: Linguistics conference for doctoral students, FU Berlin, 04.10.2013 .
- Homenaje al quechua en el día del idioma nativo. Lecture at the Day of Indigenous Languages of Peru – Instituto de cultura de Huaraz, 27.05.2013.
2012
- Endangered language, living cultures using the example of Peru. Lecture as part of the Long Night of the Sciences, Latin America Institute FU Berlin, 02.06.2012.
- The role of the negative particle ni in Huaraz Quechua (Ancash, Peru). Lecture in the context of Italo-Americana 3, Università di Pavia, 08.06.2012.
2011
- Una mirada a la política lingüística del Perú en los siglos XVI-XVII y en la actualidad. Lecture in the context of European-indigenous Trans/Mission: Translation Strategies in Colonial Latin America, Berlin, 27.10.2011.
- La Educación Intercultural Bilingüe en Ancash: una mirada de afuera. Lecture in the context of La Educación Intercultural Bilingüe en Ancash, Centro de Lingüística Aplicada at the University of San Marcos Lima, 09.09.2011.
- Los estudios andinos en Europa: ¿Por qué el quechua? Lecture at the Jornadas Académicas Internacionales 2011: Comunicación, Educación y Cultura, University of Huaraz, 14.06.2011.
2010
- The Toponymy of the Callejón de Huaylas (Ancash, Peru). Lecture in the context of Italian linguists and indigenous languages of South America, Università Orientale di Napoli, 27.06.2010.
2009
- The Middle Voice in the Ancash Quechua: an Analysis of the Suffix -ku. Lecture at Italian linguists and indigenous languages of South America, Pisa, 26.06.2009.
Since Aug. 2023
- Teaching assistant at the Carlo-Schmidt-Oberschule (integrated secondary school with
gymnasialer Oberstufe) (Berlin) in the subject Spanish (7th, 8th and 13th grade)
Aug. 2019/Jul. 2022
- Traineeship at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Gymnasium (Berlin) in the subjects Italian (8th grade). and 11th grade) and Spanish (8th and 10th grade)
Winter semester 2018/2019
- Internship at Rosa-Luxemburg-Gymnasium (Berlin) in the subjects Italian (12th grade) and Spanish (6th grade)
Summer semester 2018
- Mobility and local knowledge: School and everyday life in “Zwischenräume” (Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg)
Summer semester 2017
- Language – concepts of nature – practices: on the connection between the appropriation of nature and discourses (Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg)
8th Feb. 2016
- An introduction to Huaraz Quechua (as part of the Ayacucho-Quechua course at the Latin American Institute, FU Berlin)
17th Jul. 2013
- Quechua y castellano: dos lenguas en contacto (invited lecture) (Seminario Internacional: Lengua y Cultura Andina Quechua, UNASAM, Huaraz, Peru)
Summer semester 2010
- Elements of morphology using the example of the Quechua language, Teaching Assistant of Dr. Hernán Aguilar (Technische Universität Berlin)
