Hugely grateful to Dr Enza De Francisci for endorsing my Neapolitan language preservation work on her @glasgow.ac.uk website. 🙏 🙏 🙏
translatingpirandello.gla.ac.uk/en/follow-on/

Oh, and, women, especially nonwhite ones, are expendable, not worth naming, because we are less than human to him. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Norwich women using ancient dance to tell modern stories Anne Tiburtius says her dance company is a "living example" of how art can break down barriers.

The women using ancient dance to tell new stories

Thanks so much to Dr Santiago Betancor Falcón from the University of Gran Canaria in Spain 🇪🇸 for his interest in my language activism and literary work in defence of the Neapolitan language.

never learned a word of English. “A perfect example of American assimilation”, as the Boss himself put it whilst receiving the Ellis Island Family Heritage Award in 2010.

In this article from a million years ago, I glance through the Parthenopean roots of Springsteen’s lyricism.

From Neapolis to New Jersey: genealogy of a lyrical alchemist - Napoli Unplugged From Neapolis to New Jersey - there is a crystal clear connection between Bruce Springsteen’s Melancho-Rock and Neapolitan music, language and songs.

Bruce Springsteen’s maternal grandparents (originally from Vico Equense, a stone’s throw from Naples) remained speakers of Neapolitan throughout the rest of their lives in the States.

Nonna Adele, in fact…
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From right to left, representatives of the Basque (Euskara), Mapuche, Welsh, Neapolitan and Gaelic language who took part in KORRIKA SCOTLAND 2026. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🙏💙 🏃 🏃‍♂️ 🏃

In addition, this year the organisers generously allowed representatives of minoritised languages to take part in the relay and carry the symbolic wooden baton - the ‘lekukoa’.

Needless to say, carrying the baton for the Neapolitan language was an absolutely amazing honour. 🙏

Thanks so much to Dylan Inglis from the University of Edinburgh and KORRIKA Scotland for having the Neapolitan language at this marvellous event last Saturday in Edinburgh. 🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♀️ 🏃🏻

KORRIKA is aimed at supporting and promoting the preservation of the Basque language (Euskara) through a relay-race. 🎈

Ae fond kiss and then we sever - N’atu vaso e ce spartimmo YouTube video by Massimiliano Canzanella

Ae fond kiss and then we sever - N’atu vaso e ce spartimmo

MASTODASCIA
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#ScotsLanguage #NeapolitanLanguage

www.canzanella.net

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Coming in 2027. 🌹

A taster of the spellbinding opening - in Scots - by Derrick McClure.
From MASTODASCIA - Tron Theatre, Glasgow 17 October 2025.
#ScotsLanguage #NeapolitanLanguage

History International Summer School 2026, University of Glasgow

10. Social History in Italian Renaissance Short Stories
Supervisor: Neil McClelland

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#History #Glasgow #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #MedievalSky #Naples #Napoli #UniversityofGlasgow #UoG

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You've been telt, by AI an aw.

I meant to post this yesterday, but I got into the cleaning zone. Is my place still messy? Yes, but hush

🌷Carrie and Megan, thank you so much for what you do! Being on The Vocal Fries was truly an amazing honour. 🙏

The Italian N-Word - The Vocal Fries Megan and Carrie talk with Massimiliano Canzanella about the Neapolitan language and how it is perceived in Italy.Asian languages and the LA fires

2. The Italian N-Word, where we talk with @mcanzanella.bsky.social about the Neapolitan language and how it is perceived in Italy

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Peven Stinker - The Vocal Fries We have a few things to say about Pinker.Part of the War on ScienceThe Language InstinctPinker on Race RealismCo-authored paper on overregularizationThe Open Letter to the LSAThe article that Carrie w...

It's that time of year again! our top 5 episodes for 2025

5. Peven Stinker, where we talk smack about Pinker

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Congrats @draliaamir.bsky.social

(PhD, Glasgow) performed a bilingual reading of MASTODASCIA in Neapolitan."

Report: 'Pirandello and Modern Italian Writers: From Page to Stage', 1 December 2025 (Glasgow) - The Society of Italian Studies Pirandello and Modern Italian Writers: From Page to Stage On Monday 1st December 2025, in the Advanced Research Centre at the University of Glasgow, we launched our hybrid panel, ‘Pirandello and Moder...

Thanks for the mention, THE SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN STUDIES. 🙏
"As a way of drawing attention to lesser-spoken languages, such as southern Italian considered a ‘vulnerable’ language by UNESCO, Massimiliano Canzanella and Neil McClelland
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MASTODASCIA and the Neapolitan Language are coming to London! ✈️ 🇬🇧

MASTODASCIA e ’a Lengua Napulitana vèneno a Londra! 🔨 🪛 🪓

MASTODASCIA - Translation Studies Symposium organised by Dr Enza De Francisci University of Glasgow. YouTube video by Massimiliano Canzanella

An excerpt from the reading of my bilingual play MASTODASCIA (CARPENTER) at the Translation Studies Symposium (University of Glasgow Advanced Research Centre) organised by Dr Enza De Francisci.
Read by PhD candidate Neil McLelland (Glasgow University) and myself.
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Really looking forward to speaking at #IPCITI2025 tomorrow! My keynote, ‘Translating Rape’ will be hybrid. See below for details to register.

A fantastic opportunity to promote my bilingual play MASTODASCIA (Neapolitan with English translation) amongst academics from every corner of the world. 🙏🏻

Yesterday, with my friend, lead actor and PhD candidate Neil McClelland, at the Translation Studies Symposium organised by Dr Enza De Francisci at the University of Glasgow.

A fantastic opportunity to promote my bilingual play MASTODASCIA (Neapolitan with English translation) amongst academics from every corner of the world. 🙏🏻

Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages The milestone is one of a number of new measures taking effect on St Andrew's Day from the Scottish Languages Act.

Accussì se fa. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Way to go.
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🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻Tazin!

I cannot thank @tazinabdullah.bsky.social and the whole @languageonthemove.bsky.social Team enough. You have literally put our language and the plight of its speakers on the world linguistics map. And thank you, @lauraskh.bsky.social, for your deeply humbling words. 🙏