Stefano Albertini Clinical Associate Professor; Director of Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Major Interests: Machiavelli; 19th-century novel; church-state relations; literature and cinema; contemporary Italian history and politics.
	Loredana Anderson-Tirro Senior Language Lecturer Major Interests: Language pedagogy
	Maria Luisa Ardizzone Associate Professor Major Interests: Medieval poetry, philosophy, and science; contemporary poetry; intellectual history
	Ruth Ben-Ghiat Professor; Chair, Department of Italian Studies Major Interests: Modern Italian culture and history, twentieth-century European politics and culture; film history; fascism and the politics of its memory; colonialism and empire.
	Adriana Bonfield Language Lecturer Major Interests: Language pedagogy; 20th century English, Anglo-American and Italian fiction; Italian culture and cinema.
	Laura Bresciani Language Lecturer Major Interests: Language pedagogy, 19th-century Italian history, literature and cinema.
	Nicola Cipani Senior Language Lecturer; Language Program Director
	Virginia Cox Professor; Director of Graduate Studies Major Interests: Sixteenth-century Italian literature and intellectual history; early modern women’s writing; history of rhetoric (medieval/early modern).
	Chiara Ferrari Assistant Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies Major Interests: Nineteenth and twentieth century Italian literature, gender studies, fascism and culture, autobiography, travel narratives, critical theory.
	David A Forgacs Professor; Guido and Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò Chair in Contemporary Italian Studies
	John Freccero Professor Major Interests: Dante; medieval poetry and poetics; Machiavelli.
	Chiara Marchelli Senior Language Lecturer; Language Program Coordinator Major Interests: contemporary Italian literature; creative writing; language pedagogy; literary translation.
	Ara H. Merjian Assistant Professor Major Interests: Twentieth-century Italian and French Art History and Theory; Futurism and the Italian avant-garde between the World Wars; Nietzschean philosophy and modernist aesthetics; early avant-garde film theory and history; Pasolini and post-war Italian aesthetics and politics.
	Roberto Scarcella Perino Senior Language Lecturer; Language Program Coordinator
	Tina Sebastiani Language Lecturer Major Interests: Language pedagogy, Literature, Theatre and Cinema.
	Jane Tylus Professor; Vice Provost for Academic Affairs; Faculty Director, The Humanities Initiative at NYU Major Interests: Late medieval and early modern Italy and Europe, particularly issues related to gender and religion; history of theatre; literature of 19th-century Sicily; the history and culture of Siena
	Elena Visconti di Modrone Language Lecturer Major Interests: Language pedagogy; psychology; psychoanalytic theory and research.

Affiliated Faculty

	Karl Appuhn Associate Professor Major Interests: Environmental History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, History of Animals, Mediterranean History, Italian Renaissance.
	Josephine Gattuso Hendin Professor Major Interests: Contemporary American literature and culture; psychology and literature; ethnicity and literature; creative writing
	Daniel Javitch Professor Emeritus Major Interests: European literature of the Renaissance, poetic theory before 1700, postclassical history of Ancient genres.
	Louise Rice Associate Professor Major Interests: Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture; the history of prints and print culture.
	Lidia Santarelli Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow Major Interests: Italian fascism, nations and nationalism in the Balkans, collective memory in post-1945 Europe, Holocaust in Greece.