Brandon Schneider

Brandon Schneider earned a Ph.D. in Italian Studies and a Certificate in New Media from the University of California, Berkeley. His interests include media studies, cultural studies, and Italian language. » read more »

Lisa Regan

Dr. Regan received her PhD in art history from UC Berkeley in 2004 with a specialization in Italian Renaissance.  Her interests include patronage, court culture, gender, and the intersections of art and literature.

Gavriel Moses

Gavriel Moses, Ph.D. Brown University, is Emeritus Professor of Italian Studies and Film & Media. His areas of specialization include Italian and European Literature from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, literature in film, and the history and theory of the representational apparatus from the sixteenth century to the present. » read more »

Mara Mauri Jacobsen

Mara Mauri Jacobsen, Ph.D. Italian, University of California, Berkeley, Laurea in History and Philosophy, University of Milan, is co-author of Prego!: An Invitation to Italian and of Il reale e il possibile, An Intermediate to Advanced Reader. She has published on Italo Calvino and postmodern philosophy, on Giacomo Leopardi, and on Italian feminist writers in Italica, Quaderni ditalianistica, Italiana, La Rivista, and Leggere donna. At Berkeley she brought to the classroom her interest in diverse aspects of Italian culture: language, literature, history, film, philosophy, politics, feminist theory and the role of the media in the rapidly changing Italian society. She retired in June 2020.

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