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The Religious Studies Review recently published Dr. Deborah Kaye’s review essay, “Jewish Continuity and Mediterranean History: Medieval and Early Modern Studies,” which was inspired by her interests in and work on Mediterranean Studies and her new…

Please help us in congratulating Dr. Fabian Alfie who was honored last week with three other UA faculty members by receiving a superior teaching award for his course on Dante’s Inferno as part of the Humanities Seminar’s Program.   For…

Dr. Letizia Bellocchio, Lecturer, Department of French & Italian, shared with her Italian 301 and 302 students a Virtual Journey To Italy on Thursday November 29 in the University of Arizona iSpace. Through this multidisciplinary learning…

Congratulations to Ms. Anne-Marie Engels-Brooks who has received the 2019 Award for Excellence in Global Service offered jointly by the Center for English as a Second Language (CESL) and UA Global.  Ms. Engels-Brooks will be honored at the…

Félicitations to Dr. Irène D’Almeida who has just co-authored a new book, Autour de L’enfant noir de Camara Laye (L’Harmattan, 2018)   Née en Haïti, Elsie AUGUSTAVE est diplômée en études de littérature et en langues étrangères des…

Prof. Aileen A. Feng has been awarded a Short-Term Research Fellowship from the Renaissance Society of America to conduct archival work in Italy during Summer 2018. Prof. Feng will spend three months in Italy continuing research for her new…

On November 28, Margherita Berti, Stefano Maranzana, and Jake Monzingo hosted a unique event to allow students to experience Italy without even leaving the classroom. Google Cardboard glasses let Italy come to the UofA! Read more about this fun…

Congratulations to Dr. Beppe Cavatorta for having his talk highlighted in a recent article.  The full text can be found here. 

The Department of French and Italian is very happy to announce that our colleague Dr. Beppe Cavatorta has been elected president of the American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) for a three-year term beginning in January 2018. …

Congratulations to Borbala Gaspar, Ph.D. student in SLAT and GAT in Italian Studies, who received a Student/Faculty Interaction (SFI) Grant from Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, Academic Initiatives and Student Success (SAEM/AISS). …

Congratulations to Dr. Fabian Alfie, who just published “La donna taverna: La ballata delle due cognate ubriache” as part of a collection of essays for a conference held in June 2015, "La poesia italiana prima di Dante" (Italian Poetry before Dante).

Congratulations to Dr. Aileen A. Feng who has officially published her monograph with the University of Toronto Press! Writing Beloveds: Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender  "Covering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-…