Alan Lisko

Alan Lisko is a first-year PhD student focused on modern Italian history, memory, and translation studies. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Italian, English, and Global Studies from the University of Alabama (2018) and a master’s degree in Literary Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2020). From 2022-2025, Alan 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. His research addresses twentieth-century Italian history and culture and its preservation and transmission both in Italy and abroad. Some of his recent research projects have examined cinematic and literary representations of Giacomo Matteotti and analyzed U.S. journalistic translations of Aldo Moro’s letters