Alexia Ferracuti

Email: alexia.ferracuti@yale.edu

Alexia Ferracuti is in her sixth year of doctoral work in Italian and Renaissance Studies. At Yale she has taught courses in Italian and in Theatre Studies, and was recently also an instructor for the Yale Summer Session in Siena. Her dissertation project points to the centrality of comedy in the Italian cinquecento with a focus on the convergence between eroticism, performance, gender ambiguity, and the art of dissimulation. Education B.A. English; Renaissance Studies; Italian, summa cum laude (University of California, Santa Barbara; 2005)