Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts, Master of Arts for Teachers, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor David R. Marsh, Academic Building, Fifth Floor West, 15 Seminary Place, College Avenue Campus (848-932-5013)

Website: http://italian.rutgers.edu/academics/graduate/applications

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Andrea Baldi, Professor of Italian, SAS; Dott. in Lettere, Firenze (Italy); Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Early modern and 19th- and 20th-century literature and cultural studies; women's writing; urban studies

Paola Gambarota, Associate Professor of Italian, SAS; Dott. in Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Napoli (Italy); Ph.D., Pavia (Italy); Ph.D., Yale
Nineteenth- and 20th-century Italian culture; theories of nationalism; European avant garde film

Umberto Mariani, Professor Emeritus of Italian, SAS; Dott. in Lettere, Pavia (Italy)
Nineteenth- and 20th-century literature

David R. Marsh, Professor of Italian, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Influence of classical literature in Italy from Petrarch to Vico

Alessandro Vettori, Professor of Italian, SAS; Dott. in Lettere, Firenze (Italy); Ph.D., Yale
Thirteenth-century literature; Dante and Franciscan literature

Rhiannon N. Welch, Assistant Professor of Italian, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Nineteenth- and 20th-century Italian literature, film, and visual culture; Italian (post-) colonialism and biopolitics; race thinking and nationalism in Italy; critical theory; film theory

Laura S. White, Professor of Italian, SAS; Dott. in Lettere, Trieste (Italy); Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Early medieval literature; Petrarch, Boccaccio; epic poetry; 17th- and 18th-century literature; food studies

Associate Member of the Master's Graduate Faculty

Carmela Scala, Teaching Instructor of Italian, SAS; Ph.D., CUNY
Early modern and Baroque literature; language pedagogy; second language acquisition