Elisabetta D'Amanda
Italian School Faculty
Email: edamanda@middlebury.edu
Phone: work802.443.5727
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Elisabetta Sanino D'Amanda ha studiato Lettere all'universita' di Torino e ha poi lavorato come attrice dal 1986 al 1991 con, tra gli altri, Mimmo Calopresti, Felice Farina, Pupi Avati, Dino Risi.
In seguito ha continuato i suoi studi universitari negli Stati Uniti dove ha ricevuto un diploma postlaurea in pedagogia al Nazareth College nel 2005 e il suo dottorato da Middlebury College nel 2010 con la tesi: "La prospettiva meridiana di Mimmo Calopresti nel nuovo cinema italiano". E' dottoranda del programma di cinema produzione al Rochester Institute of Technology dove ha completato due documentari, "Buono come il pane" (2008) e "Silent Flame" (2009).
Lavora come lettrice di italiano e coordinatrice del programma presso il dipartimento di Lingue e culture moderne al Rochester Institute of Technology dal 2001 e dal 2004 dirige il programma RIT di studi in Italia a Genova.
Courses
Courses offered in the past four years.
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▹ indicates offered in the upcoming term[s]
ITAL 3251 - Intro to Contemporary Italy ▹
An Introduction to Contemporary Italy
Intended for students at the intermediate level, this course will afford the opportunity to expand conversation, writing, and reading skills while consolidating knowledge of the more difficult points of grammar. The contextual focus of the course is modern Italian culture including history, politics, and literature among other things. Italian films, short stories and essays, will enhance and complete the learning experience.
*Students are also encouraged to participate in all the workshops offered in the evening.*
Required Texts:
Daniela Bartalesi Graf, L’Italia dal fascismo ad oggi, Guerra, 2005
Susanna Nocchi, Grammatica pratica della lingua italiana, Firenze: Alma edizioni, 2007
Lia Levi, Una bambina e basta, Roma, E/O, 1994
Dizionario di Italiano: www.garzantilinguistica.it
Film:
Gli studenti devono obbligatoriamente guardare i seguenti film in programma:
C’eravamo tanto amati
/La meglio gioventù/
Caterina va in città
/Pummarò/
I cento passi
Additional reading materials will be provided by the instructors.
LNG SOCSummer 2012
ITAL 3252 - Intro to Contemporary Italy ▹
An Introduction to Contemporary Italy
Intended for students at the intermediate level, this course will afford the opportunity to expand conversation, writing, and reading skills while consolidating knowledge of the more difficult points of grammar. The contextual focus of the course is modern Italian culture including history, politics, and literature among other things. Italian films, short stories and essays, will enhance and complete the learning experience.
*Students are also encouraged to participate in all the workshops offered in the evening.*
Required Texts:
Daniela Bartalesi Graf, L’Italia dal fascismo ad oggi, Guerra, 2005
Susanna Nocchi, Grammatica pratica della lingua italiana, Firenze: Alma edizioni, 2007
Lia Levi, Una bambina e basta, Roma, E/O, 1994
Dizionario di Italiano: www.garzantilinguistica.it
Film:
Gli studenti devono obbligatoriamente guardare i seguenti film in programma:
C’eravamo tanto amati
/La meglio gioventù/
Caterina va in città
/Pummarò/
I cento passi
Additional reading materials will be provided by the instructors.
LIT LNGSummer 2012
ITAL 3253 - Intro to Contemporary Italy
An Introduction to Contemporary Italy
Intended for students at the intermediate level, this course will afford the opportunity to expand conversation, writing, and reading skills while consolidating knowledge of the more difficult points of grammar. The contextual focus of the course is modern Italian culture including history, politics, and literature among other things. Italian films, short stories and essays, will enhance and complete the learning experience.
*Students are also encouraged to participate in all the workshops offered in the evening.*
Required Texts:
Daniela Bartalesi Graf, L’Italia dal fascismo ad oggi, Guerra, 2005
Susanna Nocchi, Grammatica pratica della lingua italiana, Firenze: Alma edizioni, 2007
Lia Levi, Una bambina e basta, Roma, E/O, 1994
Dizionario di Italiano: www.garzantilinguistica.it
Film:
Gli studenti devono obbligatoriamente guardare i seguenti film in programma:
C’eravamo tanto amati
/La meglio gioventù/
Caterina va in città
/Pummarò/
I cento passi
Additional reading materials will be provided by the instructors.
Summer 2011
