Rosa Di Grottole graduated in 2008 with a B.A. in Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies from the University of Florence. In 2009, she received a scholarship to study at the Sorbonne University and moved to Paris, where she conducted research for her thesis for six months.

She holds an M.A. cum laude in Art History from the University of Florence and an M.A. cum laude in Teaching Italian to Foreigners from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Her most recent research focused on developing intercultural competence through the use of comics.

More recently, she successfully completed a Neurolanguage Coaching® course accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), enhancing her ability to offer students a more effective and personalized learning approach.

Rosa has been teaching Italian for several years at institutions such as Columbus State Community College, The Ohio State University, and the Italian Dream Academy (IDA), a private language school in Columbus, Ohio, which she owns and currently directs as Academic Director and Lead Instructor.

At OSU, in addition to teaching in the Department of French and Italian, she also serves as Assistant Director of the Italian Basic Language Program.