Alessio Filippi

Education
- Ph.D. Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature, University of California – Los Angeles, 6/2007
- M.A. Italian Literature/language, UCLA, 6/1998
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Summary Statement of Research Interests
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). -
- IL SILENZIO CHE UCCIDE: MAFIA IN THE ITALIAN LITERATURE, FRENCH AND ITALIAN: ITAL. 320, Spring 2009
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Committees
- PARTICIPATED AS NTT SENIOR REPRESENTATIVE IN FRENCH & ITALIAN FACULTY MEETINGS.
MEMBER OF BASIC LANGUAGE COMMITTEE,
- Department of French and Italian:
NTT representative in departmental faculty meetings., 2008-2009
- PARTICIPATED AS NTT SENIOR REPRESENTATIVE IN FRENCH & ITALIAN FACULTY MEETINGS.