Angela Zagarella

A native of Catania, Italy, Angela is Senior Instructor at Portland State University where she teaches language, cinema and literature, online courses as well as remote teaching. She has been actively promoting Italian language and culture in Oregon since 1988.


As we approached spring break, things started to change rapidly. In a week we were told that the University would close and we needed to teach remotely. Besides my own anxiety towards something I had never done before, the most important question for me was: how was I going to keep students interested and motivated when their lives were changing so...