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Welcome to the Department of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Italian Faculty

Mauda Bregoli-Russo, Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Cristina Gragnani, Assistant Professor

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Mauda Bregoli-Russo
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph. D. The University of Chicago; Laurea Bologna University (Italy)

Contact Details:
Location: 1708 UH
Phone No: 312- 996-3244
Email id: mabrer@uic.edu

Major Interests:
Renaissance Italian Literature (Lyric, Epic, Theater, Emblems), and 18th-century Italian Literature.

Selected works:

Letterati a Corte: Ferrara, Firenze e Mantova. Napoli: Loffredo, 2004.

Teatro dei Gonzaga al Tempo d’Isabella d’Este. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

Aspetti e Problemi del Rinascimento Italiano. Napoli: Federico & Ardia, 1997.

Studi di Critica Boiardesca .Napoli: Federico & Ardia, 1994.

Impresa come Ritratto del Rinascimento. Napoli: Loffredo, 1990.

Renaissance Italian Theater in the Regenstein Library of The University of Chicago. Firenze : Leo S. Olschki, 1984.

Galeotto Del Carretto’s Li Sei Contenti e Sofonisba.USA: J. Porrua Turanzas, 1982.

Teatro Ferrarese del Rinascimento (together with Marina Calore). Ferrara: University of Ferrara, 1980.

Boiardo Lirico. USA: J; Porrua Turanzas, 1979.

Fellowships/Awards/Honors.

2 NEH Fellowships at the Newberry Library of Chicago.
2 UIC Travel Research Grants.

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Cristina Gragnani
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Harvard University, AM Harvard University

Contact Details
Location: 1706, UH
Phone No: 312-996-5743
Email id: gragnani@uic.edu

Major Interests
Luigi Pirandello, turn of the twentieth century Italian women writers, turn of the twentieth century literary periodicals.

Selected Publications

Luigi Pirandello, Taccuino di Harvard, critical edition introduced and annotated by Ombretta Frau and Cristina Gragnani, with a foreword by Dante Della Terza. Mondadori, Milano 2002.

«Da Boner a Pirandello: il peso specifico delle parole (con due rari pirandelliani)», forthcoming, Spring 2007

«L’influsso di E.G. Boner nel formarsi della lingua letteraria pirandelliana», XVIII Congresso dell'A.I.S.L.L.I. (Lovanio, Louvain-la- Neuve, Anversa, Bruxelles, 16-19 luglio 2003),'Letteratura', Firenze, Franco Cesati editore, 2006.

«Flirt (1897-1902): lettrici e scrittrici di una rivista siciliana», proceedings of the VI Giornate di Studi Italiani, UNAM, Mexico City, 2005.

«Les neuf parcours de L’ipocrita: la recherche de la “dimension verticale», in Vincenzo Cerami: Le récit et la scène, ed. B. Barbalato, Publications Universitaires de Louvaine, Louvaine La Neuve, Belgium, 2005, 139-163.

«El ser narrado (y leìdo) por las mujeres: escritoras (y lectoras) en la Italia postunitaria», Intramuros. Biografìas, autobiografìas y memorias, A. X, n. 20, 2004.

«Pirandello lettore di Cecconi (e di Manzoni)», Ariel. Quadrimestrale di drammaturgia dell’Istituto di Studi Pirandelliani e sul Teatro Italiano Contemporaneo, XVIII, 2, Rome, May-August 2003, 151-181.

Fellowships

Packard Dissertation Completion Fellowship in the Humanities, 2001-2002

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Loredana Di Martino
Visiting Assistant Professor
Coordinator, Italian Basic Language Program.
Ph.D., Scuola Europea di Studi Avanzati (Naples, Italy)
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington

Contact Details:
Location : 1718 UH
Phone No : 312-996-5215
Email id : loredana@uic.edu

Major Interests:
Twentieth-century Italian and British literature, modernism and postmodernism, literary theory, theory of the novel.

Selected Publications:

“Amleto metafora della scrittura gaddiana.” Memoria di Shakespeare. Ed. Agostino Lombardo. Vol. 5. Roma: Bulzoni, 2005.

• “Gadda-Joyce.” Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies. Ed. Federica Pedriali. 4 (2004) <http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/italian/gadda>.

• Co-author. Parliamo italiano! Napoli: Versa gestioni, 2003. CD Rom on Italian grammar and culture.

Parliamo italiano! Napoli: Cuen, 2002. Conversation Manual.

Fellowships/Awards:

Scuola Europea di Studi Avanzati, Naples, Italy. Dissertation Fellowship, 2002-05.
Trieste Joyce School, Università degli studi di Trieste, Italy. Grant, The James Joyce Symposium, June 27-July 4, 2004.

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