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1990s Alumni

  • Queensborough Community College

    Antonella Ansani

    Professor of Italian
    Ph.D. 1990
    Email
    Antonella Ansani with shoulder length brown hair, wearing pearl necklace, brown shirt.
  • Harvard University

    Ermina Ardissino

    Visiting Associate Professor Emerita of Women’s Studies and Literature WSRP Research Associate 2024–25
    Ph.D. 1993
    Ermina Ardissino with a drink in hand, wearing a scarf and smiling at the camera.
  • International Studies Institute Florence

    Stefano Baldassarri

    Program Director
    Ph.D. 1999
    Email
    Stefano Baldassarri with mainly all gray short hair, mustache, short beard dressed in a black dress jacket and lavender shirt, striped tie.
  • Speak Language Center

    Christina Ball

    Director
    Ph.D. 1998
    Email
    Christina Ball with short brown hair, wearing a burgundy dress and hugging a globe.
  • School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University

    Beverly Ballaro

    Manager of Communications Strategy and Student Success
    Ph.D. 1993
    Email
    A black and white image of Beverly Ballaro smiling at the camera.
  • Nicoletta Barbarito

    Ph.D. 1991
    Email
    Nicoletta Barbarito smiling at the camera, posing with her hand over her cheek.
  • Dartmouth

    Nancy Canepa

    Associate Professor of French and Italian
    Ph.D. 1991
    Email
    Nancy Canepa with short dark brown almost black hair, black scoop neck shirt, smiling.
  • University of Virginia

    Enrico Cesaretti

    Professor of Italian
    Ph.D. 1997
    Email
    Enrico Cesaretti with short brown hair, grey and black scarf, green jacket standing in Siena's Piazza del Campo.
  • Ithaca College

    Julia Cozzarelli

    Professor
    Ph.D. 1998 ??
    Email
    Julia Cozzarelli in Venice standing in front of the bridge of sighs.
  • Adrienne Defendi

    Artist
    Ph.D. 1997
    Adrienne Defendi wearing a scarf tightly fitted around her neck, black v neck shirt
  • Hult International Business School

    Dina Dommett

    Dean of Faculty
    Ph.D. 1993
    Email
    Dina Dommett with dark brown shoulder length hair, flowered scarf and black jacket
  • Yale University

    Kathleen Egan

    Senior Lector I
    Ph.D. 1996
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  • Johns Hopkins University

    Virginia Jewiss

    Associate Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute and a Teaching Professor in the Humanities
    Email
    Ginny Jewiss smiling with glasses sitting on her head.
  • University of Oregon

    Massimo Lollini

    Professor Emeritus of Italian Comparative Literature, Italian, Romance Languages
    Ph.D. 1992
    Email
    Massimo Lollini wearing glasses with book case in the background
  • Academia

    Massimo Mandolini-Pesaresi

    Independent scholar and writer
    Ph.D. 1990
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    Massimo Mandolini Pesaresi
  • Indiana University

    Massimo Scalabrini

    Director of Graduate Studies, Italian; Professor French and Italian
    Ph.D. 1998
    Email
    Massimo Scalabrini, wearing black-rimmed glasses and standing in an office
  • Eckerd College

    Antonio Melchor

    Assistant Professor of Italian
    Ph.D. 1998
    Email
    Antonio Melchor with grey and black hair, bottom up shirt, standing outside
  • Yale University and at the Center for Research in the Humanities at the New York Public Library

    Maria Paola Nastri

    Independent Scholar, Researcher
    Ph.D. 1998
    Book cover to "Italy in the Second Half of the 19th Century, Bridging New Cultures" by Francesca Cadel and Paola Nastri.
  • l’Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

    Enzo Neppi

    Professor
    Ph.D. 1994
    Email
    Enzo Neppi with a collared shirt and tie, wearing black-rimmed glasses
  • Southern Connecticut State University

    Pina Palma

    Professor of Italian
    Ph.D. 1994
    Email
    Pina Palma wearing a sleeveless green dress with the Mediterranean in the background
  • Barry University

    Emanuel Paparella

    Adjunct Professor
    Ph.D. 1990
    Email
    Emanuel Paparella smiling, wearing glasses fully bearded
  • University of Pennsylvania

    Frank Pellicone

    Visiting Lecturer in Cinema & Media Studies & Italian
    Ph.D. 1994
    Email
    Frank Pellicone smiling in front of a wall filled with mosaic pieces and a large eye.
  • Francesca A. Pennisi

    Ph.D. 1998
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  • Pennsylvania State University

    Sherry Roush

    Liberal Arts Professor of Italian
    Ph.D. 1999
    Email
    Sherry Roush wearing glasses, brown sports coat, and a green necktie
  • Johns Hopkins University

    Arielle Saiber

    Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies, Head of the Italian Subdivision
    Ph.D. 1999
    Email
    Arielle Saiber wearing yellow shirt, large black earrings with helices, and black cat-eyed glasses standing in front of a brick building
  • Yale University

    Risa Sodi

    Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of Advising & Special Programs
    Ph.D. 1995
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    Risa Sodi, smiling wearing white shirt, red blazer and pearl earrings
  • Chandler-Gilbert Community College

    Gregory Trone

    Faculty
    Ph.D. 1998
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  • Rutgers-New Brunswick University

    Alessandro Vettori

    Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature
    Ph.D. 1995
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    Professor Vettori smiles at the camera, wearing circular black-rimmed glasses.
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