Deborah Pellegrino, Ph.D.

Deborah Pellegrino's picture
Senior Lector I
Address: 
320 York, Rm 525, New Haven, CT 06520-8311
Office Hours: 
Wednesday, 2:30-4:30 HQ 525

Deborah Pellegrino is a Senior Lector in the Department of Italian Studies. She earned her PhD in Italian Studies from New York University in 2018. Her expertise lies in archival research and Italian language pedagogy. Her work focuses on late medieval and early modern Italian social and cultural history, literature, gender studies, and religious culture with particular attention to the letters, account books, and memoirs of women from the mercantile echelon of Renaissance Florence. Deborah recently co-edited Women’s Agency and Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Tuscany, 1300-1600 (Viella, 2022) with Simona Lorenzini. Other recent publication highlights include: “Widowhood and Devotion: The Ricordanze Spirituali of the Exemplary Ginevra Brancacci,” in Women’s Agency and Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Tuscany (1300-1600); “Keeping Track of the Household: Accounting the Exceptional Spousal Collaboration between Margherita and Francesco Datini,” I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 25.2 (2022); “An Untold Experience of Exile: New Archival Findings on Felice Brancacci,” Renaissance and Reformation 47.2 (2024). In addition, Deborah is completing the monograph entitled Women’s Ricordanze and Account Books in the Renaissance Florentine Mercantile Household.

Courses

ITAL 150: Advanced Composition and Conversation

Discussion of social, political, and literary issues in order to improve active command of the language. Development of advanced reading skills through magazine and newspaper articles, essays, short stories, films, and a novel; enhancement of writing skills through experiments with reviews, essays, creative writing, and business and informal Italian. Classroom emphasis on advanced speaking skills and vocabulary building.
 

Prerequisite: ITAL 140 or equivalent

 
Term: Fall 2024
Day/Time: TTh 2:30-3:45pm