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Fabrizio Di Maio
fdimaio@uci.edu
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Lecturer in Italian
Interests: Impegno in Italian Culture; Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature and Film; Language Pedagogy
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Pantalea Mazzitello
pmazzite@uci.edu
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Assistant Professor of Teaching in Italian; Director of Italian Language Program
Interests: Renaissance and Early Modern Studies; Medieval Studies; Italian Literature, Culture and Society.
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Petra Petry
ppetry@uci.edu
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Lecturer in Italian
Interests: Italian music, culture, literature, Italian fashion and European history, women and gender studies, Digital and Video communications media for the purpose of teaching world languages
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Benedetta Rossi
beneder@uci.edu
Lecturer in Italian
Interests: Italian language
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Deanna Shemek
dshemek@uci.edu
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Professor, European Languages and Studies; Director of Italian Studies
Interests: Italian literature, Italian and European history, women and gender studies, Renaissance and early modern studies, digital humanities, history of communications media
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Giulia Vittori
vittorig@uci.edu
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Lecturer in Italian Language, European Languages and Studies
Interests: Italian teatro di ricerca; theatre by Carmelo Bene; image embodiment across dance, theatre, visual arts; performance as research