Director: ANTONIO VITTI
Professor of Italian, Wake Forest 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


Faculty and Artists in Residence


LUCA BARATTONI,  Assistant professor of Italian, Clemson University; Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill

ENRICO BERNARD, Playwright, scriptwriter and filmmaker. Dottore in Filosofia, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

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

LORENZO BORGOTALLO, Lecturer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, PhD candidate at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

ANNA CAROZZA, Former lecturer in Italian, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. School Teacher Certificate, Roma: BS., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

PAUL COLILLI, (see above)

ROBERTO M. DAINOTTO, Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Director of Graduate Studies, Duke University. Ph.D., NYU

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

GLORIA DI FOLCO, Actress and Film Producer

MARIO DOMENICHELLI, Professore ordinario d’inglese, Università di Firenze. President, “Associazione per gli studi di teoria e storia comparata della letteratura.” Coordinator, “Reseau europeo di comparatistica.” President, Centro linguistico, Università di Firenze. Dottore in Lingue Straniere, Università di Urbino

DARIO FO, Playwright, Actor, Nobel Prize for Literature 1997

LUISA FERRALIS, Lecturer Berkeley, M.A., Middlebury College

SERGIO FERRARESE, Visiting Scholar, College of William & Mary. Dottore in Lettere Moderne, Università di Torino, Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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

MICHAEL LETTIERI Professor of Italian, Chair, Department of French, German and Italian University of Toronto at Mississauga. Ph.D., University of Toronto

FERRUCCIO MAROTTI,Director, Centro Teatro Ateneo Centro di Ricerca della "Sapienza" - Università di Roma

SANTE MATTEO. Professor, Coordinator of Italian Studies, Department of French and Italian, Miami University Oxford. Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University

ANTONIO MORENA, Instructor of Modern Languages at Bentley College. Dottore in Lettere, University of Florence, PhD candidate at Harvard University

MICHELA MUSOLINO, Artist in Residence

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

MARIA CARLA PAPINI, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, Università di Firenze. Dottore in Lettere, Università di Firenze

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

FRANCA RAME, Playwright, Actress and Senator

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

DONATO SANTERAMO, Professor of Italian, Queen’s University; Ph.D., University of Toronto

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

GIULIA TELLINI, Dottore di Ricerca, Università di Firenze
 
ALICIA VITTI, Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, Wake Forest University; DML, Middlebury College

ANTONIO VITTI, (see above)

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

Administrative Staff


KARA GENNARELLI. Italian School Coordinator
JOSEPH TAMAGNI, Assistant to the Director; M.A., Middlebury College
SARAH LUEHRMAN, Bilingual Assistant, B.A., Middlebury College

Interns


EDWARD MAURICE BOWEN
LUCIANO DI PALERMO
MARCO LETTIERI
HOLLICE KING
MATTEO LETTIERI
COSTANZA MENCHI
ANTONINO RIGGIO

Scholars in Residence


Marcel Danesi
Mario Domenichelli
Maria Carla Papini

Artist in Residence


Enrico Bernard
Claudio Bondì
Dario Fo
Franca Rame
Michele Rame
Julian Gargiulo

Guest Lecturers and Performers


Julian Gargiulo
Michela Musolino
Vittorio Zucconi
Ferruccio Marotti