At Villanova

Courses Taught

ITA 3470 – Voyagers Explorers Immigrants

RLL 3413 – Italian Design. The 20th Century Renaissance 

RLL 3413 – A Century of Marvel. The Italian Baroque

ITA 3413 – Italy and Beauty

ITA 3412 – Italy and the Two World Wars

ITA 3365 – Italian theatre

ITA 3075 – A Visual History of Italy (Fall 2016)

ITA 2490 – Italy in business

ITA 2330 – The phantasmagoric world of Italo Calvino

ITA 2314 – Italian poetry

ITA 2222 – Italians and America

ITA 2221 – Italians. Explorers, Voyagers, Emigrants

ITA 1144 – The art of storytelling

IITA 1143 – Beppe Fenoglio and the Literary Testimony of War 

ITA 1140 – Faith, Love, and Politics in Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi 

ITA 1138 – The Pinocchio Effect. The Nation in a Puppet 

ITA 1136 – Italy by Vespa

ITA 1121 – ITA 1122 Intermediate Italian I & II

ITA 1111 – ITA 1112 Introductory Italian I & II

At previous institutions:
The culture of Italian Industrialism
Italian Futurism in the European Context


Lecture Series Organized

2018 – Italian Fashion and the Pursuit of Beauty (Featured speakers: Ann Rosalind Jones, Emanuele Lugli, Eugenia Paulicelli, Nicola Guerini).

2017 – Italy and the Design of Modern Beauty (Featured speakers: Cristina Della Coletta, Giovanni Maddalena, Grace Lees-Maffei, Ara Merjian).

2015 – The Difference Italy Makes (Featured speakers: Marco DeCeglie, CEO of Pasta DeCecco; Carlo Alberto Beretta, CEO of Bottega Veneta; Ferdinando Aspesi, Vice-President of Group Quality Novartis; Arrigo Sadun, Former Executive Director of IMF).

2014 – Dante in Our World. 750 Years Later (Featured speakers: Simone Marchesi, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Mary Watt, John Welle).