|Elena Ducci, Ph.D. University of Verona; Ph.D. University of Siena; M.A. University of Siena|
Research Interests: Italian literature and classics. Particularly the appropriation of Greek Myth in Roman culture, and its transformation in a different semiotic system and how Italian culture re-adapts this intercultural tradition.
|Martino Marazzi, Ph.D. State University of Milan|
Martino Marazzi is the Tiro a Segno visiting professor in Italian American culture. He teaches Italian literature at the University of Milan and has been a fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University. His most recent books are Danteum: Studi sul Dante imperiale del Novecento; Voices of Italian America: A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology (Fordham UP 2012); A occhi aperti: Letteratura dell'emigrazione e mito americano (FrancoAngeli 2011). He has also written two books of fiction: La fine del Purgatorio and Sedizioni (Sedizioni: 2008 and 2010).
Research Interests: Professor Marazzi has conducted major research studies in the field of Italian immigrant culture, and has published essays on Dante, Tasso, and various Italian works and authors of the Otto-Novecento (from Cavour and Pinocchio to Saba and Calvino).
|Melissa Vise, Ph.D. Northwestern University; M.T.S. University of Notre Dame|
Research Interests: The cultural history of medieval Italy with a special interest in the religious and political history of the northern communes. Speech and censorship; violence; law and culture; inter-religious contact and exchange.