Center for Italian Studies (CIS)

The was created in 1978 and was the first such center in the United States.

The Center鈥檚 mission is

  • to support 桃子视频鈥檚 faculty and students in their research and pedagogy, while engaging the latest trends in Italian Studies, including topics of literature, music, theatre, art, film, history, politics, economy, and society;
  • to broaden the impact of 桃子视频-based Italian Studies beyond 桃子视频鈥檚 campus;
  • to foster relationships between 桃子视频 and the following constituencies: Philadelphia鈥檚 Italian-American community, governmental entities representing Italy in the U.S., research centers and cultural organizations promoting Italian issues in the U.S.
  • Research and teaching areas currently developed by the Center, in collaboration with the Italian Studies Unit of the Department of French and Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies (FIGS), include: the tre corone (Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio); the Renaissance and early modern periods; book and manuscript studies; performance and media studies; race and migration issues; and Mediterranean studies.

The Center awards every year the (for faculty and graduate students) and the (for undergraduate students)听

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Director: Ann Moyer (on leave 2024/2025)

moyer@sas.upenn.edu

Center for Italian Studies
549 Williams Hall
255 S. 36th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Interim Director: Eva Del Soldato

evadel@sas.upenn.edu

551 Williams Hall

255 S. 36th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

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Advisory Board

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Marco Aresu

Assistant Professor of Italian Studies

Associate Professor of Music

Eva Del Soldato

Associate Professor of Italian Studies

Rossella Di Rosa

Italian Language Program Director

Associate Professor of History of Art

Associate Professor of History of Art

Curator of Research Services, Kislak Center at the Libraries

James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology, Department of Classical Studies

Domenic Vitiello

Associate Professor of听of City and Regional Planning

Judith Rodin Professor of English

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