People

 

                
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                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; Director of Graduate Studies
Major Interests: Medieval poetry, philosophy, and science; contemporary poetry; intellectual history
 

                
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                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.
 
Lina Bolzoni
Global Distinguished Professor
Major Interests: Renaissance Literature.
 

                
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                Adriana Bonfield
Language Lecturer
Major Interests: Language pedagogy; 20th century English, Anglo-American and Italian fiction; Italian culture and cinema.
 

                
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                Laura Bresciani
Language Lecturer
Major Interests: Language pedagogy, 19th-century Italian history, literature and cinema.
 
Nicola Cipani
Language Lecturer; Language Program Director
 

                
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                Virginia Cox
Professor
Major Interests: Sixteenth-century Italian literature and intellectual history; early modern women’s writing; history of rhetoric (medieval/early modern).
 

                
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                Tina Sebastiani de Nicola
Language Lecturer
Major Interests: Language pedagogy, Literature, Theatre and Cinema.
 

                
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                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.
 

                
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                John Freccero
Professor
Major Interests: Dante; medieval poetry and poetics; Machiavelli.
 

                
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                Chiara Marchelli
Language Lecturer; Language Program Coordinator
Major Interests: contemporary Italian literature; creative writing; language pedagogy; literary translation.
 

                
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                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
Language Lecturer; Language Program Coordinator
 

                
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                Jane Tylus
Professor; Affiliated Professor with Comparative Literature; 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
 

                
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                Elena Visconti di Modrone
Language Lecturer
Major Interests: Language pedagogy; psychology; psychoanalytic theory and research.
 

Affiliated Faculty


                
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                Karl Appuhn
Assistant Professor
Major Interests: Early Modern Europe; Environmental History; History of Science and Technology; History of Animals; Mediterranean History.
 
Josephine Gattuso Hendin
Professor
Major Interests: Contemporary American literature and culture; psychology and literature; ethnicity and literature; creative writing
 

                
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                Daniel Javitch
Professor
Major Interests: European literature of the Renaissance, poetic theory before 1700, postclassical history of Ancient genres.
 

                
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                Tony Judt
Professor; Director of NYU's Remarque Institute
Major Interests: French social history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and French and European intellectual and political history since World War II.
 

                
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                Louise Rice
Associate Professor
Major Interests: Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture; the history of prints and print culture.
 
Lidia Santarelli
Assistant Professor
Major Interests: Italian fascism, nations and nationalism in the Balkans, collective memory in post-1945 Europe, Holocaust in Greece.