Annemarie Lisko

Annemarie (AM) Lisko is a first-year PhD student focused on modern Italian history, memory, and translation studies. Before starting at Yale, Lisko earned a bachelor’s degree in Italian, English, and Global Studies at the University of Alabama (2018) and a master’s degree in Literary Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2020). From 2022-2025, Lisko was a full-time instructor of Italian at the University of Alabama, teaching introductory and intermediate Italian language courses and serving as assistant director of the university’s summer study abroad language program in Florence, Italy. Lisko’s research addresses twentieth-century Italian history and culture and its preservation and transmission both in Italy and abroad. Current research projects examine cinematic and literary representations of Giacomo Matteotti and analyze U.S. journalistic translations of Aldo Moro’s letters.