I am thrilled and massively grateful to be part of Elle Charisse's ‘knowledge capsule’. Through 180+ episodes, the Speaking Tongues Podcast showcases an amazing array of ingenuity, capturing the very heart of diversity and humanity. youtu.be/xBkA-4e44UU?si…#linguanapoletanan#neapolitanlanguagege

Have you listened to the newest episode of @vocalfriespod.bsky.social yet? Better catch up because we’re releasing a second April episode on Monday! www.buzzsprout.com/1930383/epis...

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 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.

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… www.napoliunplugged.com/neapolis-new...

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

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 MASTODASCIA tron.co.uk/shows/mastodascia/ #ScotsLanguage #NeapolitanLanguage www.canzanella.net www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjBf...

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 Please share! 🙂 #History #Glasgow #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #MedievalSky #Naples #Napoli #UniversityofGlasgow #UoG www.gla.ac.uk/study/visiti...

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

2. The Italian N-Word, where we talk with @mcanzanella.bsky.social about the Neapolitan language and how it is perceived in Italy www.buzzsprout.com/1930383/epis...

It's that time of year again! our top 5 episodes for 2025 5. Peven Stinker, where we talk smack about Pinker www.buzzsprout.com/1930383/epis...

Congrats @draliaamir.bsky.social

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 italianstudies.org.uk/2025/12/09/r...

MASTODASCIA and the Neapolitan Language are coming to London! ✈️ 🇬🇧 MASTODASCIA e ’a Lengua Napulitana vèneno a Londra! 🔨 🪛 🪓

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. youtu.be/tPjSR6M2ACc?...

Really looking forward to speaking at #IPCITI2025 tomorrow! My keynote, ‘Translating Rape’ will be hybrid. See below for details to register.

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.

Accussì se fa. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Way to go. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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. 🙏

I am delighted and honoured to have been invited - courtesy of Dr Enza De Francisci - to present my bilingual play MASTODASCIA (Neapolitan with English translation) at the Translation Studies Symposium which will be held next 1 December at the University of Glasgow.

I've started a Starter Pack for the Language on the Move research community 🥳 For members of the research group, contributors to the blog/podcast. Please shout out if you're part of the LOTM community and I'll add you/tag suggestions (or lmk if you're on there but would prefer not to be)

Successo di “Mastodascia” a Glasgow. "La risposta straordinaria del pubblico dimostra quanto sia sentita l'esigenza di tutelare e tramandare il nostro patrimonio linguistico." www.giornalediplomatico.it/comites-succ...

Thank you to everyone who came out to see my bilingual play MASTODASCIA last night! A fantastic audience and a beautiful array of languages with Scots and Neapolitan being the jewels in the crown. 👑 Huge thanks to Derrick McClure for being such mesmerising chorus. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🙏 💙

A salient snippet from my Neapolitan lecture at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland last Wednesday.

This coming Wednesday, at the University of Edinburgh. Huge thanks to Dr Daniela Sannino for inviting me and the Department of European Languages and Cultures for hosting the event.

Neapolitan, Scots, Yiddish, Ainu and Romani are on the way out. Unless we do something about it, of course. blog.gts-translation.com/2023/03/21/f...

So what’s a Deus Ex Machina? And why is one featuring Maradona’s Napoli jersey being delivered to the Tron Theatre in Glasgow? 🎭 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌋 www.tron.co.uk/shows/mastod... 🎟 🎫

Pe accattà ’e bbigliette ncoppa a internet: www.tron.co.uk/shows/mastod... 🎫 🎟️ Oppure pe telèfono: +44 (0)141 552 4267. MASTODASCIA è finanziato c’ ‘o contribbuto ’e COMITES Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Thanks for sharing news of my play, Bellahouston Academy! 🙏 Never a day goes by when I don’t feel fortunate and proud of teaching at Bella. ❤️

Tickets are now on sale! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ⚽️ 🇦🇷 💙 📚 🔨 🪚 🪜 www.tron.co.uk/shows/mastod...

Cu Neil McClelland stammatina simmo state ô Teatro Tron ’e Glasgow pe vedé ’a Changing House addó ô 17 ’e Uttobbre pròssimo se rappresentarrà ’a traggedia dinto a duie atte Mastodascia.

Mastodascia - Fri 17 October 2025 - Tron Theatre, Glasgow. Tickets on sale soon!

«Nosotros tenemos más necesidad de Che Guevara, del lenguaje y de revolucionarios de la literatura que de letrados de la revolución». Julio Cortázar

Listen to Distinguished Professor Ingrid Piller's inspiring words about using the resources researchers are given to "pay it forward" as she accepts her 2025 Alexander-von-Humboldt Professorship Award on this @languageonthemove.bsky.social post. ⬇️ www.languageonthemove.com/alexander-vo...

Ughhh. Check out my 2024 paper and learn why this is nonsense!

Since the master bigots who have shamelessly added the racial slur 'Napoli' to the Italian language dictionary do not have the guts to do it, I have borrowed John Steinbeck's illustration of the term 'Okie' from 'The Grapes of Wrath' to clarify the meaning of…

"The decision to adopt one tongue and stop using another is not neutral; it is tied, inevitably, to power and prestige. … Language revitalisation is thus one part of a broader struggle for linguistic justice, which embraces the ability to thrive in one’s language of choosing" aeon.co/essays/langu...

I was very glad and proud to produce the English translation and subtitles for ’A Figliata (The Delivery), a bilingual Neapolitan-Italian short documentary by Serbian artist Slobodanka Ciric... youtu.be/GhDvkgFyado?...

What an informative @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast by @empacheco.bsky.social about better ways to work with atypical language users! ⬇️

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks to Massimiliano Canzanella. The conversation delves into the history of the Neapolitan language and the interplay of culture, race, and national identity that… goodpods.com/podcasts/new...

For Scott McTominay, the Neapolitan language and culture assimilation is complete. 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌋 #mcfràtemo #mcmybrother

This animation film is indeed poetry. A huge thank you to the amazingly talented director Arron Quinn 💐 for giving our language a wonderful chance to shine: ‘Annabel Lee’ by Edgar Allan Poe in Neapolitan. #neapolitanlanguage #dialettonapoletano #linguanapoletana youtu.be/HgOf47MjNbQ?...

How the Italian ‘parla bene’ or ‘speak properly’ continues to perpetrate evil on Neapolitan schoolchildren and their parents/carers. Language oppression is one of the most diabolical forms of violence…