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 Cristina Abbona-Sneider
Italian Studies, Department of
Cristina Abbona-Sneider's reasearch and teaching interests include curriculum design, use of technology in language instruction, techniques of teaching advanced level writing, teaching language and culture through film.
 Caroline Castiglione
Italian Studies, Department of
Caroline Castiglione examines how seemingly marginalized individuals challenged systems of power in Italy during the period 1500-1800. Her book, Patrons and Adversaries, demonstrated that rural residents successfully contested urban rule through the strategies of adversarial literacy. She now investigates Roman aristocratic mothers involved in intense familial conflicts. Her studies illuminate how subaltern groups used judicial means to broaden received beliefs about their rights in society and in the family.
 Ronald Martinez
Italian Studies, Department of
Medieval Studies
I am currently finishing, in collaboration with Robert M. Durling, an edition with translation and commentary of Dante's Divine Comedy (the first two volumes, Inferno and Purgatorio, have been published). I am also preparing a book-length study on Dante's appropriation of liturgy for narrative and linguistic aspects of his work.
 Massimo Riva
Italian Studies, Department of
Prof. Riva's current research focuses on the application of digital technology to the study of literature. Among his award winning online projects: The Decameron Web, and the Virtual Humanities Lab. In collaboration with the Rockefeller library's Center for digital initiatives, he is currently at work on a new project centered on the Garibaldi panorama, a unique survival of a form of public art that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth century.
 Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg
Italian Studies, Department of
Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg works on Italian and German literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, on psychoananlysis and literary and cultural theory, with particular interests in the construction of gender.

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