Faculty
About our Faculty
The faculty associated with the program cover many different areas related to the study of the Italian language, Italian culture, and Italy’s relationships with other cultures. These include literature and translation, the visual arts (including film), music, drama, opera, linguistics, European history, the history of science, historical anthropology, and comparative religion. The student selects an area of specialization and plans, in collaboration with a faculty adviser and other program faculty members, an individual, multidisciplinary, multicultural curriculum.Joseph Luzzi
Associate Professor of Italian and Director of Italian Studies
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, Italian Studies
Biography:
B.A., Tufts University; M.A., New York University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, University of Pennsylvania (2001–02). Fellow, Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center (2000–01). Grants from Keats-Shelley Association (2002) and Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies (1996); Dante Society award for best graduate essay (1996). Articles in Italica, MLN, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, Yale Italian Poetry, Dante Studies, others. Guest editor, Yale Journal of Criticism. Codirector, First-Year Seminar (2009– ). (2002– ) Associate Professor of Italian.
E-mail: jluzzi@bard.edu
Anna Cafaro
Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian and Spanish
Amelia Moser
Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian
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