Chair: Rodica Diaconescu Blumenfeld (fall), Roberta Antognini (spring);

Associate Professors: Roberta Antognini^a, Rodica Diaconescu Blumenfeld^b, Simona Bondavalli, Eugenio L. Giusti;

Visiting Assistant Professor: Laura Biagi.

Advisers: The department.

Courses are conducted in Italian, except for ITAL 168 , ITAL 175 , ITAL 177 , ITAL 237 , ITAL 250 , and ITAL 255 .

^a On leave 2015/16, first semester 

^b On leave 2015/16, second semester

Programs

Major

• •  Italian Major

Correlate Sequence in Italian

• •  Italian Correlate Sequence

Courses

Italian: I. Introductory

• •  ITAL 105 - Elementary Italian
• •  ITAL 106 - Elementary Italian
• •  ITAL 107 - Intensive Elementary Italian
• •  ITAL 168 - Food Culture and Italian Identity
• •  ITAL 175 - The Italian Renaissance in English Translation
• •  ITAL 177 - Italy and the Modern Self

Italian: II. Intermediate

• •  ITAL 205 - Intermediate Italian I
• •  ITAL 206 - Intermediate Italian II
• •  ITAL 217 - Advanced Composition and Oral Expression
• •  ITAL 218 - Giorgio Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi-Contini’s
• •  ITAL 220 - Thirteenth-Sixteenth Century Italian Culture
• •  ITAL 222 - Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Italian Culture
• •  ITAL 237 - The Divine Comedy: With Dante in Heaven
• •  ITAL 250 - Italian Cinema in English
• •  ITAL 255 - Four Italian Filmmakers (in English)
• •  ITAL 290 - Field Work
• •  ITAL 297 - Reading Course
• •  ITAL 298 - Independent Work

Italian: III. Advanced

• •  ITAL 301 - Senior Seminar
• •  ITAL 302 - Senior Project
• •  ITAL 303 - Senior Project
• •  ITAL 320 - The Language of Desire and the Modern Self
• •  ITAL 338 - Literary Masterpieces: Dante’s Divine Comedy
• •  ITAL 342 - Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron: The “Novella” as a Microcosm
• •  ITAL 375 - Fictions of Youth: Youth Culture in Twentieth-Century Italian Literature
• •  ITAL 380 - Modernity in Italy
• •  ITAL 381 - Gender Effects: Women in Italian Cinema
• •  ITAL 384 - Folk Culture
• •  ITAL 385 - Three Contemporary Women Writers: Dacia Maraini, Rossana Campo, Laila Wadia
• •  ITAL 389 - The Impossible Task of Translating: An Introduction of Literary Translation from Italian to English
• •  ITAL 399 - Senior Independent Work