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December 10, 2024
December 9, 2024
Congratulations to the Fall 2024 Gerald & Beverly Bocciardi Undergraduate Prize winners!
The conference was held December 9, 2024.
Alessia Cis for a project in Italian on Pinocchio
Irina Paun for a project in Italian on D'Annunzio
Alessia Filocamo for a project on existentialism, Svevo and Pirandello
Georgina Cortez for a project on Stefania Auci
August 27, 2024
Enroll in Italian 120!
A unique opportunity to sharpen your conversational Italian while reading powerful, unforgettable stories by contemporary female writers from the South.
See detailed course information here
If you don’t speak Italian and are interested in the course, please contact the instructor Annamaria Bellezza at ambellezza@berkeley.edu
December 10, 2023
Congratulations to the Fall 2023 Gerald & Beverly Bocciardi Undergraduate Prize winners!
Brooke Brogan for “Slow Food: an Italian Story of Sustainability(link is external)” [Italian 3: Intermediate Italian]
December 14, 2022
November 4, 2022
Congratulations to Kyle Thomson, who has been awarded the Berkeley-Muenster Research Fellowship and the Berkeley-St Andrews Research Fellowship, which will enable him to complete his dissertation in Europe! Complimenti, Kyle!
October 5, 2022
Congratulations to doctoral candidate Michele Segretario who has won the 2022 Italian American Studies Association Annual Memorial Fellowship Award for his dissertation-in-progress, titled “The Traveling Soundscape – An Acoustic Ethnography of the Italian Migration.” The award is offered to “the author of the year’s outstanding doctoral dissertation or masters thesis proposal or project in Italian American and Italian Diaspora Studies.”
May 17, 2022
Please join us in congratulating our alumna Elisa Russian, who has accepted a one-year postdoctoral position in the French Department of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland as the recipient of a Swiss Government Excellence Postdoctoral Fellowship!
April 1, 2022
The Distinguished Teaching Award is the campus's most prestigious honor for teaching and recognizes teaching that incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and has a lifelong impact.
The full announcement c an be found here: https://ls.berkeley.edu/news/ls-leads-berkeley-distinguished-teaching-aw...
July 26, 2021
Congratulazioni! The Department of Italian Studies is delighted to announce Professor Henrike C. Lange’spromotion to Associate Professor with tenure. Professor Lange is a scholar of Italian and European medieval and early modern art, architecture, history, visual culture, and literature.
December 11, 2020
Mia Fuller has been appointed as Gladyce Arata Terrill Distinguished Professor effective July 1, 2020. We add our warm congratulations to the Berkeley chancellor’s on this well-deserved honor, reserved for distinguished faculty members.
November 17, 2020
Congratulations to Annamaria Bellezza on the publication of her article “Developing Performative Competence and Teacher Artistry: A Pedagogical Imperative in the Multicultural Classroom” in the L2 Journal, Volume 12, Issue 3 (November 2020). Please click here to read the article.
May 15, 2020
Congratulations to Zachary Bekowies on receiving this year’s Italian Studies Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award!
September 16, 2019
Mariagrazia De Luca, Ph.D. Student in Italian Studies, has been awarded the Charles Hall Grandgent Award from the Dante Society of America for her essay “From Forced Readers to Freedom Writers: Responding to Dante in Postcolonial Somalia.” The prize is offered for “the best essay submitted by a student enrolled in any graduate program in the US, US territories, or Canada.” Congratulations, Mariagrazia!
May 15, 2018
Congratulations to Professor Mia Fuller, who has been awarded a prestigious National Humanities Center Fellowship for her book project on “Mussolini Threshing Still: Inertia Memoriae, Italy, and Fascist Monuments.” She will be spending the 2018-19 academic year in Durham, North Carolina.