Doctor in Italian Studies from Bordeaux Montaigne University and the University of Bologna, author of a thesis in Italian sociolinguistics, Valeria Villa-Perez is an HDR lecturer at the Jean Monnet University of Saint-Étienne.

Member of the ECLLA team, she has been carrying out research on the links between minor languages ​​(Italian dialects, so-called original languages) and migrations for more than ten years. His work focuses on studying the sociolinguistic and educational implications of (multi)mobilities and is part of a more concrete reflection on the dynamics of inclusion, multilingualisms, the processes of diminishing languages ​​and their speakers and on training. teachers.