Italian Faculty

BA, University L. Bocconi, Milan, Italy. Taught college Italian at all levels, including language coaching for opera majors in the Music Conservatory at SUNY-Purchase; organized cultural and language learning trips to Northern Italy. SLC, 2001, 2006–

BA (magna cum laude), Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy. MA, PhD (with distinction), New York University. Areas of specialization: 20th-century Italian women’s writings; modern Italian culture, history, and literature; fascism; Western medieval poetry and thought. Recipient of the Julie and Ruediger Flik Travel Grant, Sarah Lawrence College, for summer research, 2008; the Penfield fellowship, New York University, 2004; and the Henry Mitchell MacCracken fellowship, New York University, 1998-2002. Publications: “Nascita e morte della massaia di Paola Masino e la questione del corpo materno nel fascismo,” Forum Italicum (Spring 2003). Translations, “The Other Place” by Barbara Serdakowski and “Salvation” by Amor Dekhis in Multicultural Literature in Contemporary Italy (editors Graziella Parati and Marie Orton, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007). SLC, 2001-2002, 2004, 2005–

BA, Sarah Lawrence College; PhD, Johns Hopkins University. Special interests 14^th and 20^th century Italian literature. Publications include, Ameto by Giovanni Boccaccio, translation; Giovanni Boccaccio, Twayne World Authors series; “Clizia a Sarah Lawrence,” Studi italiani; “The Pleasures of Reading: Boccaccio’s Decameron and Female Literacy,” MLN. Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship; Lipkin Award for Excellence in Teaching (SLC); Esther Raushenbush Chair in the Humanities (SLC). SLC, 1981-