Chair: Simona Bondavalli;

Associate Professors: Rodica Diaconescu Blumenfeld, Simona Bondavalli;

Assistant Professor: Sole Anatrone^b;

Visiting Assistant Professor: Alberto Gelmi.

^b On leave 2021/22, second semester

Advisers: The department.

Courses are conducted in Italian, except for ITAL 168 , ITAL 175 , ITAL 177 , ITAL 237 , ITAL 250 , ITAL 255 , and ITAL 275 .

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

Italian: II. Intermediate

• •  ITAL 205 - Intermediate Italian I
• •  ITAL 206 - Intermediate Italian II
• •  ITAL 217 - Advanced Composition and Oral Expression
• •  ITAL 218 - On the Edge of Catastrophe: Giorgio Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
• •  ITAL 220 - Italian Roots and Branches
• •  ITAL 222 - Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Italian Culture
• •  ITAL 236 - Art in the Age of Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo
• •  ITAL 237 - The Hell with Dante! A Journey to Inferno
• •  ITAL 240 - Italy and its Migrations: Stories of Italian Emigration and Immigration
• •  ITAL 250 - Italian Cinema in English
• •  ITAL 255 - Four Italian Filmmakers (in English)
• •  ITAL 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
• •  ITAL 297 - Reading Course
• •  ITAL 298 - Independent Work

Italian: III. Advanced

• •  ITAL 301 - Senior Seminar
• •  ITAL 302 - Senior Project
• •  ITAL 303 - Senior Project
• •  ITAL 305 - Italophone African Narratives, from Colonialism to Post-Colonialism
• •  ITAL 306 - Reading Rodari: Revolutionary Rhymes, Telephone Tales, Fantastical Grammar
• •  ITAL 320 - The Language of Desire and the Modern Self
• •  ITAL 331 - Heroes, Paladins, and Non-existent Knights: The Italian Epic Tradition from Charlemagne to Calvino
• •  ITAL 340 - Italy and its Migrations: Stories of Italian Emigration and Immigration
• •  ITAL 342 - Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron: The “Novella” as a Microcosm
• •  ITAL 375 - Fictions of Youth: Youth Culture in Twentieth-Century Italian Literature
• •  ITAL 379 - Food and Fiction in Modern Italy
• •  ITAL 385 - Three Contemporary Women Writers: Dacia Maraini, Rossana Campo, Laila Wadia
• •  ITAL 399 - Senior Independent Work