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Department of Italian


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.

Chair: Paolo Valesio, Ph.D.
513 Hamilton
Tel: 212.854.2308


Faculty

Teodolinda Barolini:
Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Ph.D., Columbia, 1978
Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature; Dante; Petrarch; Boccaccio; medieval lyric; reception of classical antiquity; gender
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jo Ann Cavallo:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1987
Interests: Romance epic (especially Boiardo, Ariosto, Tasso); Castiglione and court culture; Machiavelli; humanism; allegory; medieval and Renaissance chivalric narratives in later oral tradition and theater
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Flora M. Ghezzo:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers, 2001
Interests: 18th-20th century Italian women writers; autobiography; critical theory, gender issues; 20th-century history in cinema and literature; 18th-century Venice
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Andrea Malaguti:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1999
Interests: Modernism and modernity; philosophy in literature; drama; French and Italian film
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nelson Moe:
Associate Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1994
Interests: Italian cultural studies (19th-20th centuries); representations of the South in literature and film; problems of national identity; Gramsci
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Daniela Noè LeSassier:
Senior Associate, ABD, New York, 1981
Interests: Language pedagogy
Barbara Spinelli:
Senior Lecturer, M.A., Universita Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, 2001
Interests: Language pedagogy
Paolo Valesio:
Giuseppe Ungaretti Professor in Italian Literature, Ph.D., Bologna
Interests: Italian literature and poetry; modern and contemporary Italian literature; D'Annunzio; Marinetti; rhetoric, spirituality, and literature; theory and practice of literary writing
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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