Joseph holds New Hampshire teacher certification in Italian, Latin, Greek and French with letters of eligibility in Spanish and German. He began teaching Italian at nineteen years of age for the Order Sons of Italy in America and has more than twenty years teaching experience at every level of schooling from kindergarten to university in both private and public settings. Joseph has extensive experience in multilingual curriculum design and student travel as well as many years experience in program oversight and implementation. Recognizing the fact of internal encounter and transformation inherent to language instruction, Joseph strives to synthesize affect theory (Tompkins), multiple intelligence theory (Gardner), and the zone of proximal development (Vygotsky) to create a learning space that leads to language acquisition and appropriation.

As a young learner in an ethnic family, blending scholastic and linguistically diverse enclaves, Joseph learned English, Italian, German, French, Latin, and Spanish simultaneously, adding ancient Greek and Portuguese at the university level. He holds his B.A. in French and Italian from the University of New Hampshire with a year at the Université de Bourgogne à Dijon and an MALS with an emphasis in queers studies and comparative literature from the University of New Hampshire with a year at the Université de Montréal. Joseph holds a postgraduate certificate in ancient Greek from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He has studied Scottish Gaelic with the University of Dundee, Scotland, and active Latin and Greek at the Accademia Vivarium Novum in Frascati, Italy.