Dr. Fabian Alfie, professor of Italian, was featured in a story by UA News in how the work of the famed poet Dante Alighieri has remained a focal point of popular interest for centuries.
Read the full story here: Four Questions: 'Inferno' Unveils Obsession With Evil's Origins
Professor Beppe Cavatorta was selected to deliver the keynote address at Montclair State University’s Symposium EduMusica: Songs and Music in the Italian Curriculum.
Professor Beppe Cavatorta was interviewed in an Italian newspaper about his latest book. The article "I versi di Ballerini? Ricerca sulla lingua" can be seen in its full version below:
Please help us congratulate Dr. Aileen Feng who was just promoted to Associate Professor of Italian with tenure!
We are very happy to welcome Dr. M. Letizia Bellocchio to the Department of French and Italian! Dr. Bellocchio is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Wesleyan University. She received a Ph.D in Italian Studies at Rutgers University and a Ph.D in Comparative Studies (Literature, Theatre, Cinema) at the Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy. Her research interests are 19th-20th century Italian Literature and Theatre, Film Studies, Adaptations and the contamination of different media (Literature, Cinema, Theatre), Italian culture and Law. She is the editor of one book and several articles and book chapters in her areas of interests.
You are cordially invited to join us for a reading of poems & short stories about the Italian Resistance during WWII translated by students enrolled in Italian 420. See the level of Italian you could achieve by continuing your Italian Education at the University of Arizona. Enjoy these outstanding translations from Italian into English while spend-ing some quality time with the professors, adjuncts, gats and students in the Italian Program.
Dr. Aileen Feng was awarded the College of Humanities Distinguished Teaching Award! Congratulations!
Dr. Aileen Feng was awarded $1,500 through the Provost Author support program for her forthcoming book: Writing Beloveds: Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender (U of Toronto Press).
Dr. Aileen A. Feng has been awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from Harvard University to spend AY 2016-2017 at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy (http://itatti.harvard.edu/). As an I Tatti Fellow, Dr. Feng will work on her second monograph titled Feminism's First Paradox: Female Misogyny and Homosociality in Early Modern Italy and France.
Mark your calendars: St. Philips in the Hills Episcopal Church is planning its eighth annual All-Night Reading of Dante's "Inferno" as part of its Maundy Thursday observance, 24-25 March 2016. If you're interested in being a reader, please contact Prof. Fabian Alfie. See the flier below for more details.
