Federico Pacchioni is a teacher, researcher and poet. A native of  Emilia-Romagna, he grew up partly in Modena and partly in the smaller  Medieval town of Cesena near the Adriatic coast. After relocating to  the American Southwest, he completed his B.A. (Prescott College) by  combining extensive travel with the study of sense of place literature  and creative writing. At the same time, he also studied education and  began teaching Italian, a passion which eventually brought him to do  graduate work in Italian Studies at the University of Indiana at Bloomington, where he is now a PhD candidate. At IUB he has taught  Italian at all levels, including graduate reading courses, interdisciplinary freshman seminars, and Italian courses at the  overseas center in Florence.
His interdisciplinary research in Italian Cinema and Modern Literature  explores the topics of spirituality and dreams, intercultural representations, the relationships among different media, and the folklore of puppetry. He also pursues pedagogically-oriented research on the the role of aesthetics and philosophic inquiry in foreign language and culture education, and is interested in exploring the  effective employment of new technologies. His scholarship has appeared  or is forthcoming in journals such as Italica, Intersezioni and Studi pasoliniani. He is now working on a dissertation about Federico Fellini and his collaborators.