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MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT
Professors
Assistant Professors
Senior Lecturer
Lecturer
Instructor
Instructional
Assistant
Nicholas
Patruno
Professor of Italian
(Ph.D., Rutgers University)
Office: Thomas Hall 136
Office phone: 610 526-5047
Office fax: 610 526-7479
E-mail: npatruno@brynmawr.edu
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Professor
Patruno has been teaching at Bryn Mawr since 1969. His main  academic interests focus on 19th and 20th century Italian literature, translation, and on the pedagogical aspect of language teaching (with the aid of computers). In addition to courses in elementary and intermediate Italian, he teaches courses both in Italian and in translation, on Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, on Primo Levi and the Holocaust, on Italian romanticism, the short story, and 20th-century prose and poetry. He has published works on Giovanni Verga, Elio Vittorini, Eugenio Montale and on Primo Levi. His most recent work deals with Primo Levi and Italian women voices of the Holocaust. His
book, Understanding
Primo Levi (University of South Carolina Press, 1995)
originated with a call from the press. He has appeared on NBC's The Today Show to comment on Primo Levi's life.
Professor Patruno's teaching has been recognized by a prize awarded by the American Institute for Italian Culture for "outstanding teaching at the college level" and more recently, by the American Association of Teachers of Italian of the Delaware Valley and vicinity. His research has been supported by the American Philosophical Society. He has directed the Bryn Mawr-University of Pennsylvania Summer Institute in Florence, Italy, for several years and is now Co-Director of the Pisa Program Pisa Program.
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Nancy
J. Vickers
President of the College and Professor of French, Italian and Comparative
Literature
Ph.D., Yale University
Nancy
Vickers joined the Bryn Mawr College community as its seventh
president on July 1, 1997. She came to the College from the University
of Southern California, where she was the dean of curriculum and
instruction in  the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and professor
of French, Italian and Comparative Literature.
Vickers is a scholar in the fields of literary and cultural studies.
Her interests range from Renaissance poetry to the transformation
of the lyric genre as a result of changing technologies such as
music video and television. She has published numerous articles,
including "Blazing Beauties: Marot's Poetic Anatomies,"
in the 1997 volume The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality
in Early Modern  Europe, and "Lyric in the Video Decade," in the journal Discourse, volume 16.1. She is the co-editor of Rewriting
the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Differences in Early
Modern Europe and A New History of French Literature,
for which she and her coeditors received the Modern Language Association's
James Russell Lowell Prize in 1990. Vickers also coedited The
Medusa Reader, an interpretive  anthology of texts referring
to Medusa from Homer to the present day, published
in the fall of 2001.
Vickers received her bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke College
in 1967 and her master's and doctorate in philosophy degrees from
Yale University in 1971 and 1976, respectively. She taught French
and Italian at Dartmouth College from 1973 until 1987, when she
joined the University of Southern California faculty. Dartmouth
awarded her its Presidential Medal for Outstanding Leadership
and Achievement in 1991. She has been a visiting professor at
Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University
of California, Los Angeles, and a visiting fellow at Princeton
University.
Vickers has received awards for her excellence as a teacher from
both Dartmouth and the University of Southern California. |
Roberta
Ricci, Chair
Assistant
Professor on the Rosalyn R. Schwartz Lectureship
(Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University)
Office: Thomas Hall 134
Office phone: 610 526-5048
Office fax: 610 526-7479
E-mail: rricci@brynmawr.edu
Roberta Ricci received her Ph.D. in Italian Literature from Johns Hopkins University, after a Laurea in Lettere Moderne (summa cum laude) at the  University of Pisa with an interdisciplinary study in the Twentieth-Century European avant-garde (literature, music and art). Her academic interests are Medieval prose and poetry, Renaissance Studies, Women's Studies, Modern Italian Fiction, Critical Theory and Paratexts. She has published articles on the Latin elegy, Boccaccio, Tasso, Ariosto, Female Renaissance Epistolography, and on 20th century Italian authors, such as Alberto Savinio, Italo Svevo, and Carlo Emilio Gadda, among others. Her most recent article, (entitled "Sex? Love? No, Let us Talk about Marriage: Boccaccio's Onesta Brigata Back to Reality"), examines the Decameron's last novella and its misogyny. Among her current projects are two articles: one on Arcangela Tarabotti, entitled: "The Power of the Letters: Practices of Female Epistolography in the Renaissance"; the other on female contemporary Italian novels and their adaptation as film, entitled: "Oltre il canone? Esperienze di scrittura femminile".
Since graduating from Johns Hopkins University, she has been working on a book in which she analyzes different morphologies of authorial commentaries (from footnotes to letters, and from prefaces to critical essays and interviews). She looks at the formal problems inherent in self-commentary and examines the attempts of writers to shape the meaning and significance of a text. She argues that comments and addenda written by authors on their own work differ from standard commentary in that they present an intriguing ulterior literary dimension to the complexity of the text. She is currently working on a book entitled "(Self) Reflexivity: Authorial Criticism in the Italian Literary Tradition."
"Teaching is very important to me, and I see it as an extension and an integral part of my research. I approach the courses I teach with enthusiasm and I expect the same of my students. I believe that the most satisfying professional experience can be reached through the interaction and a good balance between teaching and research work. In addition to courses in elementary and intermediate Italian, my areas of expertise are Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Film Studies, Cultural Studies from a multi-disciplinary perspective, and Women's Studies, where my interest in teaching focuses on the question of gender--how it is defined and how it relates to the question of "coming to voice"". |
Ute Striker
Senior Lecturer in Italian at Haverford College
Office: INSC S411, Haverford College
Office phone: 610 896-1498
Office fax: 610 526-7479
E-mail: ustriker@haverford.edu
Ute
Striker been teaching Elementary Italian (001 & 002) and occasionally Intermediate Italian at Haverford College
since 1987. She received her education in Europe and received a Certificat Supérieur de Langue et Litérature Françaises de l'Université de Neuchâtel in Switzerland and a Certificato
Superiore di Lingua, Letteratura, Storia e Storia dell'Arte dell'Università di Firenze She alsoholds an M.A. in Romance
Languages (Italian and French), English and Art History from the
University of Bonn, Germany. Her main interests are language teaching
and translation work. |
Titina
Caporale
Lecturer in Italian
Office: Thomas 121
Office phone: 610 526-7311
Office fax: 610 526-7479
Email: tcaporal@brynmawr.edu |
Michelle Blumer
Instructor in Italian
Office: Thomas 154
Office phone: 610 526-5984
Office fax: 610 526-7479
Email: mblumer@brynmawr.edu
Michelle Blumer has an MA in Comp Lit and Women Studies from the University of Texas and an MA an Italian from NYU. She is currently a PhD candidate in Italian at NYU. |
Gabriella Troncelliti
Instructional Assistant in Italian
E-mail: gtroncel@brynmawr.edu
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Gabriella
Troncelliti was born and educated in Italy. She attended the University
of Turin, majoring in Economics. She has been teaching Italian
at  Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College since 1989.
Her
interests are contemporary Italian novels and poetry, modern Italian
cinema, and Italian history. Mrs. Troncelliti enjoys interacting
with her students on a personal level. |
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Faculty