Italian Faculty and Staff
Italian Program
Italian Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Laura Di Bianco
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies, Affiliated Faculty with the Center for Advanced Media Studies, Environmental Science and Studies Program, The Institute for Planetary Health
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- Gilman 492
Research Interests: Italian Cinema, 20th and 21st Italian Literature, Women’s and Gender Studies, Environmental Humanities.
Education: PhD, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Virginia Jewiss
Associate Director, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute; Teaching Professor
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- Gilman 330D
Education: PhD, Yale University
Leonardo Proietti
Senior Lecturer, Italian
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- Gilman 481
Research Interests: Italian cultural studies, with a particular focus on visual culture, including film, art, and fashion
Education: MA, UCLA
Meredith Ray
Professor of Italian Studies
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- Gilman 418
Research Interests: Early Modern and Baroque Italian literature, women and gender studies, history of science, early modern religious culture, epistolary writing
Arielle Saiber (she/her/hers)
Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies, Director of Graduate Studies in Italian, Head of the Italian Subdivision
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- Gilman 478
Research Interests: Dante, Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Humanism, Early Print History, History of Science and Mathematics, Science Fiction, Electronic Music, Mysticism, Psychedelic Studies
Education: PhD, Yale University
Bernadette Wegenstein (she/her/hers)
Professor of Media Studies, Director, Center for Advanced Media Studies
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- Gilman 461
- 410-516-7511
Research Interests: Film and media studies, documentary film practice, body and media theory, gender studies
Education: PhD, Vienna University
Alessandro Zannirato
Teaching Professor of Italian, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Italian, Language Program Director, Italian
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- Gilman 448B
Research Interests: foreign language pedagogy; foreign language teacher training; liaison, community and conference interpreting; program evaluation.
Education: PhD, University of Cape Town
Associated Faculty
Shane Butler
Nancy H. and Robert E. Hall Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics, Director, Classics Research Lab
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- 410-516-3835
Research Interests: Classical and nineteenth-century reception of Italy, Italian humanism
Education: PhD, Columbia University
Stephen J. Campbell
Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor, Department of History of Art
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- Gilman 170
- 410-516-4928
Research Interests: Renaissance and Baroque, notions of style and visual communication
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Christopher S. Celenza
James B. Knapp Dean, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
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Research Interests: Renaissance latin, Paleography, History of classical tradition
Education: PhD, Duke University, PhD, University of Hamburg
Earle Havens
Adjunct Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures, Director, The Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance
Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Sheridan Libraries
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- Department of Special Collections, Brody Learning Commons
- 443-743-7849
Research Interests: History of the Book, Scribal Culture and the History of Reading, Catholic Reformation, Literary Forgery
Education: PhD, Yale University (History and Renaissance Studies)
Laura Vasilyeva
Assistant Professor, Musicology
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Research Interests: Nineteenth-century Italy, opera, sound studies, built environments
Education: PhD, University of California
Lawrence M. Principe
Drew Professor of the Humanities and Director, Singleton Center for the Study of Pre-Modern Europe
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Research Interests: Early modern and late medieval science and technology; history of alchemy/chemistry; science and theology
Education: PhD, History of Science, Johns Hopkins University, PhD, Organic Chemistry, Indiana University
Matthew Roller
Professor, Classics
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- Gilman 102
- 410-516-5095
Research Interests: Latin literature; Roman social and cultural history; Graeco-Roman philosophy
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Emeritus professors
Walter Stephens
Professor Emeritus
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Research Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, history and theory of forgery, the literature of witchcraft.
Education: PhD, Cornell University, PhD, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa