Italian

Language Program
239 Cowell College
(831) 459-2054
http://language.ucsc.edu

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Margaret R. Brose (Literature)
Italian literature, 19th- and 20th-century poetry and poetics, the novel, Romanticism, medieval literature, gender studies, autobiography

Deanna Shemek (Literature)
Italian literature and cultural history, Renaissance studies, early modern popular culture, narrative (early modern to contemporary), women’s studies, literary theory

Lecturer

Giulia Centineo
Italian culture and civilization; history of Italian language; Italian linguistics, syntax, and semantics; language pedagogy

Maria (Tonia) Prencipe
Business Italian, translation, Italian culture and civilization