People
Veronica Vegna, PhD
Director of the Italian Language Program; Languages Across the Curriculum Coordinator; Senior Instructional Professor
Veronica Vegna specializes in teacher training, foreign language acquisition, and contemporary Italian cinema.
Maria Anna Mariani, PhD
Italian Undergraduate Adviser and Director of Undergraduate Studies; Associate Professor of Modern Italian Literature.
Maria Anna Mariani specializes in modern Italian literature (19th- 21st Century), memory studies, Holocaust studies, Jewish-Italian literature, and literary theory.
Sara Dallavalle, PhD
Coordinator of First-year Courses; Language Advising Contact; Assistant Instructional Professor
Sara Dallavalle specializes in Italian comics studies and language pedagogy.
Leonardo Cabrini, PhD
Study-Abroad Liaison; RSO Advisor; Assistant Instructional Professor
Leonardo Cabrini specializes in Italian cinema, television studies, and popular culture.
Beatrice Fazio, PhD
Humanities Teaching Fellow
Beatrice Fazio is a teacher and scholar of Renaissance and early modern literature and culture, with a focus on civic humanism, geocriticism, women’s writing, and how early modern texts intersect issues of “national” identity and intellectual tradition.
Alessandro Ludovico Minnucci
Graduate Student Instructor
Alessandro Minnucci is a doctoral students in Italian and his research focuses on contemporary performance poetry and the relation between poetry and the other arts.
Caterina Nicodemo
Graduate Student Instructor
Caterina Nicodemo is a doctoral student in Italian, and her research focuses on the early Italian lyric, Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio.
Please visit this website for a complete list of RLL Italian faculty and graduate students.
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