Professori
professors
There are two Professors of Italian at Sarah Lawrence College, Judy Serafini-Sauli and Tristana Rorandelli, and two Italian Language Assistants, Alessandra Fischetti and Mariagrazia Schiavetta.
Judy Serafini-Sauli
sersauli@slc.edu
Ms. Serafini-Sauli holds a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Boccaccio, Twayne World Authors Series and translator and editor of Ameto by Giovanni Boccaccio, Garland Medieval Text Series. She currently holds the Esther Raushenbush Chair in Humanities and has been a professor at Sarah Lawrence College since 1981.
Tristana Rorandelli
trorandelli@slc.edu
Ms. Rorandelli holds a B.A. (magna cum laude) from Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy,a M.A. from New York University and is a Ph.D. candidate at New York University. Her areas of specialization include twentieth-century Italian women's writings, modern Italian culture, history, and literature, fascism and Western medieval poetry and thought. She is the recipient of the Penfield fellowship, New York University, 2004; the Henry Mitchell MacCracken fellowship, New York University, 1998-2002. Her publications include: "Nascita e morte della massaia di Paola Masino e la questione del corpo materno nel fascismo," Forum Italicum (spring 2003); entry: "Valeria Viganò," Volume "Contemporary Italian Fiction" in Dictionary of Literary Biography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press; editors Manuela Gieri and Luca Somigli [forthcoming]). She has taught at SLC 2001-2002; 2004 and since 2005.
Alessandra Fischetti & Mariagrazia Schiavetta
Language Assistants
Alessandra Fischetti and Mariagrazia Schiavetta are native Italian speakers with training in music and language teaching. Students meet with them in small groups twice a week for Italian conversation.