Laura and De Sole Professor of Contemporary Italian Culture
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
email: lb227@georgetown.edu
Interests: 20th -Century Literature, Women Writers from the Origins to the Present, Gender Studies, Torquato Tasso, Renaissance Chivalric and Epic Poems, the Past-Present Continuum.
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
email: fc237@georgetown.edu
Interests: “Medieval and contemporary literature; the interplay of literature and music, language teaching and linguistics. Intertextuality, literary theory and cultural studies.”
Dottorato di ricerca, University of Florence
Ph.D., University of Toronto
email: gc227@georgetown.edu
Interests: 15th-18th century Italian theater; Italian opera and librettists; the relations between theater and the fine arts; Pietro Trinchera, religious theater; cinema.
Ph.D., Georgetown University
email: definaa@georgetown.edu
Interests: Discourse analysis: oral narrative, narratives in interaction, and the relationship between storytelling and identity. Discourse and identities: processes of identity construction among migrant and transnational communities. Language use in Italian communities abroad. Dialects and language varieties in Italy. Italian American studies.
Dottorato di Ricerca, Università di Venezia Ca’Foscari
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
e-mail: pireddun@georgetown.edu
Interests: Comparative literature; European studies; Italian, English, and French works of literature; critical theories; cultural studies; history of ideas; early science fiction; translation studies.
Ph.D., Rutgers University
e-mail: lfh5@georgetown.edu
Interests: Language pedagogy, using technology to enhance student learning, integrating culture into all levels of language instruction, and translation studies.
Ph.D., Arizona State University
e-mail: dm527@georgetown.edu
Interests: Syntax, methodologies for teaching Italian as a second/foreign language, use of technology in foreign language classes, and translation studies.
Laurea in Lingue e Lettere, University of Bologna
Ph.D Candidate, DLS, (’16)
e-mail: mustif@georgetown.edu
Interests: Teaching Italian language and culture using a drama-based approach; integrating web resources and technology.
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
e-mail: tosig@georgetown.edu
Interests: Modern and contemporary Italian literature; cultural studies; interdisciplinary approaches to literature; creative writing; translation.