Professor Musti received a laurea in languages and literature from the University of Bologna and a Master's degree in Teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language from San Francisco State University. She specializes in the use of the Active Learning Through Drama approach in teaching languages for which she underwent further training both at Harvard University and at the University of San Francisco.

Professor Musti has been teaching Italian and English as a Second/Foreign Language since 1980, both in the US and in Italy (Johns Hopkins University, Bologna). She has led workshops for teachers in the use of drama in the foreign language classroom at U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Santa Barbara, CSU, Sacramento, New York University, the British Council in Bologna and at the TESOL conference in Rome, Italy. Professor Musti began teaching Italian at Georgetown University in the Fall of 1996. At Georgetown, she is an active member of the Faculty Colloquium on New Learning Environments, sponsored by CNDLS (Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship). She is the receipient of the Faculty Colloqiuium 2003 award for revising and redesigning a beginning Intensive Italian language course using tevhnology and multimedia resources.

For the Fall 2004 semester, Professor Musti will teach Intensive Basic Italian and Intensive Advanced Italian I.