Linda De Caterina, Ph.D. has taught at the university level in several colleges and universities in the United States and Italy. She has extensive Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and literature teaching experience.
She lives in San Diego and spends a few months in Italy every year. She has two master’s degrees, one in Italian (Ca'Foscari University in Venice) and one in Spanish (SDSU). She also has a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literature from UC Berkeley. She has two children. Her future goals are to raise strong, healthy, happy and independently thinking children. Also, to keep herself fit and healthy, to keep learning and traveling. She practices yoga and judo, and she has nine cats and three dogs.