FACULTY
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Maria Luisa
Ardizzone
Associate Professor.
Laurea 1967 (history), Palermo.
Medieval poetry, philosophy, and science; contemporary poetry;
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 Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Chair, Department of Italian Studies; Professor, Italian Studies, History. Ph.D. 1991 (comparative history),
Brandeis; B.A. 1981 (history), University of California at Los Angeles.
Twentieth-century Italian culture and history; Italian film; colonialism; world
war two; fascism and its
memory.Teaching
and Research Interests
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Virginia
Cox
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies. Ph.D. 1989 (Italian literature), B.A. 1985 (modern and
medieval languages), Cambridge.
Sixteenth-century Italian literature;
history of rhetoric; early modern women's writing.
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 Chiara
Ferrari
Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies. Ph.D. 2003 (Italian), M.A. (Italian), New York University.
Nineteenth and twentieth century Italian literature, gender studies, fascism and culture, autobiography, travel narratives, critical theory.
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 John
Freccero
Professor. Italian Studies, Comparative
Literature. Ph.D. 1958 (Romance languages), M.A. 1953 (French), B.A. (English),
Johns Hopkins.
Dante; medieval poetry and poetics; Machiavelli. |
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Jane Tylus
Professor. Ph.D. 1985, (comparative literature), Johns Hopkins; B.A. 1978
(English), College of William and Mary.
Late
medieval and early modern Italian literature, with focus on
gender and religion.
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| The faculty of the Department are
equally dedicated to the undergraduate and graduate components of the program,
and each member regularly teaches courses at both levels. Click
here for room and phone numbers, and e-mail addresses. |
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RECURRENT
VISITING FACULTY
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 | Lina Bolzoni
Global Distinguished Professor (in residence at NYU every other year),
Professor of Italian, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
Renaissance and medieval culture; literature and the visual
arts. |
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EMERITI
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| Aldo D. Scaglione
Erich Maria Remarque
Professor of Literature, Emeritus. Laurea 1948 (Comparative
literature), Universitą di Torino.
Medieval and Renaissance literature; history of linguistic
theories in Italy and France. |
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ADJUNCT PROFESSORS, LECTURERS, INSTRUCTORS
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 Stefano Albertini
Adjunct professor; director of Casa Italiana. Ph.D. 1997 (Italian), Stanford
University; M.A. 1991, Virginia University; laurea 1987 (Political History),
Universitą di Parma.
Machiavelli; 19th-century novel; church-state relations; literature and cinema.
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| Loredana
Anderson-Tirro
Senior lecturer.
Language pedagogy. |
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| Adriana
Bonfield
Lecturer. |
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| Laura
Bresciani
Lecturer. |
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| Nicola
Cipani
Lecturer. Director, Italian Language Programs. |
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| Marcella Coppoletta
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs lecturer. |
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| Chiara
Marchelli
Lecturer. Langauge Programs coordinator. |
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| Ingrid Rossellini
Adjunct professor. |
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| Roberto
Scarcella Perino
Lecturer. Langauge Programs coordinator. |
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| Tina
Sebastiani De Nicola
Lecturer. |
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| Elena
Visconti di Modrone
Lecturer. |
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AFFILIATED FACULTY IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS
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| Josephine Gattuso Hendin
Professor of English. Ph.D. 1968
(English and American literature), M.A. 1965, Columbia University; B.A. 1964
(English language and literature), City College.
Italian American literature and culture; contemporary American literature and
culture; psychology and literature; philosophy and literature. |
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| Daniel Javitch
Professor of comparative literature.
Ph.D. 1971 (comparative literature), Harvard; M.A. 1970 (English), Cambridge
University; B.A. 1963 (English), Princeton University.
Ariosto and the epic tradition; European literature of the Renaissance; poetic
theory before 1700; postclassical history of ancient genres. |
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| Tony R. Judt
Erich Maria Remarque professor of
European studies; professor of history; director of the Remarque Institute.
Ph.D. 1973 (history), M.A. 1973, B.A. 1969 (history), Cambridge University.
Modern European history; history of ideas. |
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| Antonia Lant
Associate professor of cinema. Ph.D.
1986 (history of art), M.Phil. 1983, Yale University; B.A. 1979 (history of
art), Leeds University.
Silent film history; feminist film criticism and filmmaking; 19th-century
art history. |
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RECENT VISITING FACULTY
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 Carla Benedetti
Fall 2002, Fall 2001.
Laurea 1976 (Lettere), Universitą di Pisa; Doctorat 1984, Ecole
des Hautes Etudes, Paris. Professor, Universitą di Pisa.
Contemporary Italian literature; critical theory. |
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| Robert Lumley
Spring 1996.
Lecturer, University College, London.
Italian cultural studies, contemporary culture and society. |
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| Salvatore S. Nigro
Fall 1999, Fall 1998, Fall 1996.
Professor, Universitą di Catania.
Manzoni; age of the baroque; literature and the visual arts. |
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| P. Adams Sitney
Fall 1997.
Professor, Princeton University.
Italian cinema. |
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| Alexander Stille
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