Language Schools Italian Faculty

Director: ANTONIO VITTI, Professor of Italian Cinema, Indiana University, Ph.D., University of Michigan

Associate Director : PAUL COLILLI, Professor of Italian, Laurentian University; Dean of Graduate Studies, Laurentian University. Ph.D., University of Toronto

ENRICO BERNARD, Playwright, scriptwriter and filmmaker. Dottore in Filosofia, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” and Artistic Director of the Italian School

ALESSIA BLAD  is from Milan, Italy. She received her Masters of Arts in Italian Studies from the University of Notre Dame. She has been teaching at Notre Dame since 1999. She teaches Italian beginning and intermediate courses as long as Italian culture classes. Her interests include foreign language pedagogy, TA training and teaching language and culture with a variety of media.

CLAUDIO BONDÌ, Filmmaker, script writer, Professor of Film Studies, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” and Ca’ Foscari of Venice

LORENZO BORGOTALLO, Lecturer of Italian, Clemson University , Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

ANTONELLO BORRA, Associate professor of Italian at the University of Vermont.

SANDRA CARLETTI, Professor of Italian, Middlebury College, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, Laurea Università di Bologna

PAUL COLILLI, (see above)

MARCEL DANESI, Scholar in Residence. Professor of Semiotics and Anthropology, Director of the Program in Semiotics and Communication Theory, University of Toronto. Ph.D., University of Toronto

LUIGI FONTANELLA, Professor of Italian, Department of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, State University of New York, Ph.D., Harvard University,
Editor-in-Chief of GRADIVA and Gradiva Publications

JULIAN GARGIULO, (http://www.juliangargiulo.com/) is an internationally  renowned classical pianist and recording artist. He has performed in  the United States, Italy, France,
Germany, England, Russia, Singapore  and Australia.

DIANA IUELE-COLILLI, Professor of Italian, Laurentian University. Ph.D., University of Toronto

EDOARDO A. LÉBANO, Professor Emeritus of Italian
Research areas: Renaissance Epic, 19th Century Italian Narrative, Italian American History, Indiana University and director of the Middlebury Italian School for ten years. 

ERNESTO LIVORNI, Professor of Italian Language and Literature, and Affiliate of Comparative Literature, at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

DACIA MARAINI, Writer in Residence. Prize-winning Italian novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer, Honorary Degree, Middlebury College

NICOLETTA MARINI-MAIO, Assistant Professor of Italian & Italian Studies Coordinator, Dickinson College, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

ANTONIO NICASO, Award-winning journalist, bestselling author and an international recognized expert on organized crime. Sits on the Advising Board of the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security at York University (Toronto) and on the Governing Council of The Alliance Against Contraband in Geneva, Switzerland

ELISA PIOVESANO, Laurea in Lingue e Letterature, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia

ERMANNO REA, Writer in Residence. Prize-winning Italian novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer

COLLEEN RAYN-SCHEUTZ, Associate Professor of Italian, Indiana University. PhD Indiana University.

CARLO SALA, Maître de conferences, Universit é de Paris X-Nanterre. Diplôme de l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Doctorate de 3^e Cycle

RAFFAELLA SANTUCCI, Professoressa in Arti e Scienze dello Spettacolo, Laurea, University of Rome “La Sapienza”

DOMENICO SCARPA, Researcher in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa: Lecturer, Italian Literature, University of Naples, “L’Orientale”: Ph. D., University of Trento and University of Paris III – La Sorbonne Nouvelle

PAOLO SORRENTINO, Filmmaker

GINO TELLINI, Professore Ordinario d'Italiano, Università di Firenze. Direttore della Scuola di Dottorato di Ricerca, Università di Firenze. Dottore in Lettere, Università di Firenze

GIULIA TELLINI, Dottore di Ricerca, Università di Firenze

VICTORIA TILLSON, Harvard University, Ph.D., Harvard University

ALICIA VITTI, Lecturer, Indiana University; DML, Middlebury College

ANTONIO VITTI, (see above)

VITTORIO ZUCCONI, Writer and Washington correspondent for Italy's La Repubblica and Artist in Residence of the Italian School

KARA GENNARELLI, Italian School Coordinator

JOSEPH TAMAGNI, Assistant to the Director; MA, Middlebury College

FEDERICO PACCHIONI, Bilingual Assistant
 

EDWARD MAURICE BOWEN

SALVATORE GALLO

MARCO LETTIERI

MATTEO LETTIERI

ANTONINO RIGGIO