Alumni and Friends

Alumni and Friends

The Italian Department at Yale University recognizes with enthusiasm the participation and contributions of its many friends, and celebrates the accomplishments of its many alumni. We welcome the presence of community members in our courses and at our public events and recognize that we would be far less successful in our mission without the generous gifts and endowments provided by friends and alumni.

Where Are They Now

• Diego Bertelli, Ph.D. 2011
• Andrea Moudarres, Ph.D. 2011
• James Coleman, Ph.D. 2010
• Daniel Leisawitz, Ph.D. 2010
• Christiana Purdy, Ph.D. 2010
• Barbara Garbin, Ph.D. 2009
• Erin McCarthy King, Ph.D. 2009
• Kristin Stasiowski, Ph.D. 2009
• Maria Derlipanska, Ph.D. 2008
• Giuseppe Gazzola, Ph.D. 2008
• Filippo Naitana, Ph.D. 2008
• Lisa Wozniak, Ph.D. 2008
• Erin Larkin, Ph.D. 2007
• Claudia Chierichini, Ph.D. 2006
• Alfredo Troiano, Ph.D. 2006
• Amerigo Fabbri, Ph.D. 2004
• Bernardo Piciche, Ph.D. 2004
• Alessandro Polcri, Ph.D. 2004
• Federico Schneider, Ph.D. 2002

Friends of the Department:

Catherine Boumkwo Baneni
Post-Doctoral Fellow 2010 - 2012

Catherine Boumkwo studied early modern and modern European intellectual history at Leiden University, where she earned her M.A. in 1997. After completing a two-year Fulbright research fellowship at Yale University in 1999, she matriculated in its department of History and received a Ph.D. in 2009.

She specializes in the history of ideas from the Renaissance to fin-de-siècle. Her research interests include science and religion, images of the human, the idea of work, church and state. She is currently working on a manuscript for publication based on her dissertation “Paradoxes in the Anthropology of John Calvin 1509-1564.” Her post-doctoral supervisor is Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor in the Humanities, in the Department of Italian Language and Literature.

Contact Information:

Catherine Boumkwo Baneni
Department of Italian Language and Literature
82-90 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208311
New Haven, CT 06520-8311
e-mail: catherine.boumkwobaneni@yale.edu

Visiting Fulbright Scholar
Unn Falkeid - AY 2010-2011

Unn Falkeid received her PhD in Italian literature in 2006 from the University of Oslo. She has taught Italian and comparative literature, and currently holds a Fulbright Fellowship and a four-year Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Oslo. Her postdoctoral project is an exploration of the Avignon papacy as a context for textual transmissions between different cultures of early modern Europe, between Italian humanism, Franciscan theology, and scholastic philosophy. She has previously published a monograph on Petrarch, Petrarca og det modern selvet (2007), and several articles on Dante and Petrarch. In 2008 she published the anthology Dante: A Critical Reappraisal, which consists of proceedings from the third conference of the Nordic Dante Network, of which she is the Norwegian organizer. In addition to her postdoctoral project, she is co-editing The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch with Albert Russell Ascoli.

Post-Doc Fellow
Gabriella Remigi July 1, 2009 - Dec 31, 2009

Gabriella Remigi received her degree in Italian literature from the University of Siena (Italy) with a thesis entitled Lettura de Il Gattopardo, under the guidance of Professor Romano Luperini. She then spent five years as an assistant of Italian literature in the Romance Languages and Literatures Department of the University of Geneva (Switzerland), where she taught Italian literature and language and completed her PhD dissertation on the interpretation and translation of American novels by Cesare Pavese and the influence of these literary works on his artistic production (Jury: Giovanni Bardazzi, director; Maurizio Perugi, president; Mariarosa Masoero, University of Turin; Adele Dei, University of Florence).

As part of her field of research, she received a research fellowship, sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation, which will involve a one-year sojourn in the United States (January 1st to December 31st, 2009) as the guest of Florida State University, collaborating with Professor Mark Pietralunga, and Yale University, where she will work with Professors Giuseppe Mazzotta and Millicent Marcus. Her fields of interest are theater and 20th-century Italian literature.