Department of Italian Studies
Machiavelli; 19th-century novel; church-state relations; literature and cinema; contemporary Italian history and politics.
Office: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, Room 101
Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 11:00a-1:00p
Email: stefano.albertini@nyu.edu
Department of History, Department of Italian Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Center
Environmental History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, History of Animals, Mediterranean History, Italian Renaissance.
Office: King Juan Carlos Center, Room 411
Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 3:30pm-4:30pm and/or by appointment
Phone: (212) 998-8621
Email: appuhn@nyu.edu
Department of Italian Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Center
Medieval-Early Modern Lyrical Poetry, Guido Cavalcanti, Guido Guinizzelli, Boccaccio. Antique-Medieval Philosophy; Platonism, Aristotelianism, Heterodoxy in the 13th century. Medieval Science, Medieval Poetics, Intellectual History. Dante’s Commedia, Dante’s Prose Works, especially: Vita nuova, Convivio, Monarchia, De vulgari eloquentia; Dante’s Rime. Dante’s philosophical thought. 20th Century Italian Poetry; Literary movements: Decadentism, Marinetti and Futurism; Hermeticism. Montale, Ungaretti, Quasimodo, Luzi, Zanzotto. Italian literary Magazines. Ezra Pound, the Machine Age, Pound and Science, Pound’s Lost thought of Italian years.
Office: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, Room 402
Office Hours: Wednesday 3:30pm-4:30pm and/or by appointment
Phone: (212) 998-3852
Email: mla1@nyu.edu
Department of Italian Studies, Department of History, Program in International Relations
Fascism, Authoritarianism, War, Propaganda
Email: rb68@nyu.edu
Department of Italian Studies
Language pedagogy; 20th century English, Anglo-American and Italian fiction; Italian culture and cinema
Office: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, Room 202
Office Hours:
Phone: (212) 998-3853
Email: amb12@nyu.edu
Department of Italian Studies
Language pedagogy, 19th-century Italian history, literature and cinema
Office: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, Room 401
Office Hours: Mondays 2:00pm-3:00pm
Phone: (212) 998-7590
Email: lb118@nyu.edu
Department of Italian Studies
Giordano Bruno, Renaissance Philosophy, Art of Memory, Visual/verbal languages (Emblem Literature, Visual Poetry), Machines in Modern Literature, Sound Studies.
Office: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, Room 408
Office Hours: Thursdays, 3:30-5:30pm
Email: nicola.cipani@nyu.edu
Department of Italian Studies
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
Office: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, Room 406
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00am-12:00pm & Wednesdays 2:00pm-3:00pm
Email: ac7041@nyu.edu
Department of Italian Studies
Italian Literature; Women's writing in Italy; Appropriations of Classical culture and archaeology; Language pedagogy
Office Hours: Mondays 1:45pm-2:45pm and/or by appointment (Via Zoom)
Email: ed1440@nyu.edu
Department of Italian Studies
Cultural history, media and politics in contemporary Italy; cinema and photography.
Email: david.forgacs@nyu.edu
Department of Italian Studies
Theorized notions of cultural and/or racial hybridity in Italian communities after fascism, multilingualism and multimediality, and translation.
Email: isabella.livorni@nyu.edu
Department of Italian Studies
contemporary Italian literature; creative writing; language pedagogy; literary translation
Office: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, Room 303
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2:00pm-3:00pm (181 Mercer, rm 230) and/or by appointment
Email: cm107@nyu.edu
Department of Italian Studies, Department of Art History
Twentieth-century Italian and French Art History and Theory; Futurism and the Italian avant-garde between the World Wars; Nietzschean philosophy and modernist aesthetics; early avant-garde film theory and history; Pasolini and post-war Italian aesthetics and politics
Office: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, Room 302
Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:00pm-5:00pm and by appointment.
Email: merjian@nyu.edu
Department of Italian Studies
reception, translation and forms of adaptation through the intersections of rhetoric, poetics, drama, music and voice studies
Office: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, Room 305
Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 3:30pm-4:30pm
Email: eugenio.refini@nyu.edu
Department of Italian Studies
Italian Opera; Music Composition; Theater; Movie Subtitles; Italian Food
Office: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, Room 303
Office Hours: Thursdays 10am-11am or by appointment
Email: rsp3@nyu.edu
Department of Italian Studies
Language pedagogy, Literature, Theatre and Cinema
Office: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, Room 303
Office Hours: Thursdays at 5pm or by appointment
Email: cs136@nyu.edu
Research Interests: History of Italian Renaissance art and architecture, including patronage, court culture, and women's studies
Research Interests: Contemporary American literature and culture; psychology and literature; ethnicity and literature; creative writing
Research Interests: Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture; the history of prints and print culture.
Research Interests: 19th-Century Italy; Aesthetics and Politics of the modern; Early Modern Mediterranean
Art of Memory, Literature and Figurative Arts, History of Reading, Treatises on Love & Women, The Reception of Orlando Furioso
University of Oslo / New York University
Education:
Ida Caiazza received her PhD in Italian Philology from the University of Pisa and the University of Helsinki, her BA/MA from the Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of Pisa.
Areas of Research/Interest:
Modern and contemporary Italian literature; cinema and vernacular modernism; environmental humanities; history of emotions
Education:
B.A., Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
Ph.D., New York University
Joseph Perna is a visiting assistant professor of modern and contemporary Italian literature at New York University. His research centers on vernacular modernism in Italy, with a special emphasis on cinema, photography, and magazines in the years surrounding the Second World War. He has published essays on Max Ophuls and Mario Soldati in the Italianist, and has written on early opera for a volume dedicated to innovation in Counter-Reformation Italy. He is currently at work on two book-length projects: a scholarly monograph on melodrama, Passionate Viewing in Modern Italy, and an English translation of Soldati’s interwar autobiography, America Primo Amore.
Office: Casa Italiana Rm. 502
Office hours: Mondays 1:30pm-3:30pm or by appointment
Late medieval and early modern Italy and Europe, particularly issues related to gender and religion; history of theatre; literature of 19th-century Sicily; the history and culture of Siena