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USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Alessio A. FilippiAssistant Professor (Teaching) of ItalianContact Information E-mail: afilippi@usc.edu Phone: (213) 821-2607 Office: THH 155J |
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 Ph.D. Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature, University of California - Los Angeles, 6/2007
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M.A. Italian Literature/language, UCLA, 6/1998
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Description of Research |
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| Ph.D. Department of Italian, UCLA. Dissertation filed in the fall of 2006. Degree to be awarded in 2007. Dissertation Topic: Food, body, sins in the Church in medieval Italy; Christianity, medieval philosophy; Italian medieval "novelle" (from Boccaccio to mid XV century; female saints in XIII-XIV centuries Tuscany. Other interests: WWI Italian literature; Renaissance cookery; XIX-XX Centuries Italian history, politics and numismatics. Taught language at UCLA (Teaching assistant, 1996-2000); Pepperdine University (2000-2001); USC (French-Italian Department, 2001-present); Istituto Italiano di cultura (1997-2004). | |
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IL SILENZIO CHE UCCIDE: MAFIA IN THE ITALIAN LITERATURE, FRENCH AND ITALIAN: ITAL. 320, STUDENTS WILL BE EXPOSED, THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF A WIDE SELECTION OF LITERARY TEXTS AND FILMS, TO THE COMPLEX REALITY OF THE ITALIAN MAFIA, FROM ITS RISE TILL OUR DAYS.,
Spring
2009
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PARTICIPATED AS NTT SENIOR REPRESENTATIVE IN FRENCH & ITALIAN FACULTY MEETINGS.
MEMBER OF BASIC LANGUAGE COMMITTEE,
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2009
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Member, Department of French and Italian:
NTT representative in departmental faculty meetings., 2008-2009
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