Born in the United States, Dr Strong Cincotta came to Australia in 1977. She has
taught at both secondary and tertiary levels in both the U.S. and Australia. Her BA was
in French, Italian & Spanish. Her MA was in Italian language and literature. Her PhD
was in the field of philosophy, the first PhD in that area granted by the University of
Wollongong. She is a NAATI accredited literary translator (Italian-English). Dr Strong
Cincotta’s teaching career has included the teaching of Academic English, linguistics,
Italian, French and language teaching methodology. She was Coordinator of the Division of
Languages & Linguistics at the University of Western Sydney before retiring in 2001.
Since retirement, Dr Cincotta took up the study of Chinese and has taught language
teaching methods in China. Interested in intercultural communication and the difficulties
of academic writing in a second language, she now dedicates her time to helping over-seas
post-graduate students and other academics in this area 

Field of Study: the teaching and learning of languages (English, Italian &
French)Literary translation 

Professional activities and affiliations: Although now retired, Dr Cincotta was the Chair
of the NSW Community Languages Schools Board, a Commissioner on the NSW Ethnic Affairs
Commission (now the Community Relations Board) and the President of the Wollongong
Chapter of the Dante Alighieri Society as well as a member of the Modern Language
Teachers’ Association and of the Australian Institute of Translators and Interpreters
(AUSIT)

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Luigi Pirandello: existentialist avant la lettre, University of Wollongong Thesis Collection (1983)

This thesis argues that the Italian Nobel Prize winning author, Luigi Pirandello, far from being...