Tristana Rorandelli

Courses: Beginning Italian, Depictions of Family Relations and Italian Society in Postwar Italian Women’s Writings

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B.A. (magna cum laude), Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy. M.A., Ph.D. (with distinction), New York University. Areas of specialization: twentieth-century Italian women’s writings; modern Italian culture, history, and literature; fascism; Western medieval poetry and thought. Recipient of the Penfield fellowship, New York University, 2004; 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 37.1 (Spring 2003). Translations: “The Other Place” by Barbara Serdakowski and “Salvation” by Amor Dekhis in Mediterranean Crossroads II (London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and London Associated University Presses; editors Graziella Parati and Marie Orton [forthcoming]). SLC, 2001-2002; 2004; 2005-

Judith P. Serafini-Sauli

Esther Raushenbush Chair

Courses: Beginning Italian, Intermediate Italian, “Modern Italian Prose”

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B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. Author of Boccaccio, Twayne World Authors Series; translator and editor, Ameto, by Giovanni Boccaccio, Garland Medieval Text Series. Currently holds the Esther Raushenbush Chair in Humanities. SLC, 1981-