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Alessio Filippi

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Italian
Email afilippi@usc.edu Office THH 155J Office Phone (213) 821-2607

Education

  • Ph.D. Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature, University of California – Los Angeles, 6/2007
  • M.A. Italian Literature/language, UCLA, 6/1998

  • 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

  • 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