Francesca Leardini

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Italian
Pronouns She / Her / Hers Email leardini@usc.edu Office THH 176 Office Phone (213) 746-7479

Education

  • Ph.D. Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, 8/2005
  • M.A. Medieval and Early Renaissance Italian Literature, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy, 12/1995
  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    Francesca Leardini conducts research in the areas of Medieval and Early Renaissance Italian Literature, in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, foreign language pedagogy, Romance and Italian philology, linguistics, and textual analysis.

    • Ital. 320- Love in Italian Literature, (Italian), Fall 2024
    • Ital. 461- Theatre, Spectacle, Drama and Performance in Italy: Humor and Comedy in Twentieth-Century Italian Theatre, (Italian), Spring 2024
    • Ital. 402-Places, Memory, and Imagination, (Italian), Spring 2022
    • GESM 120-Trauma, Death, and Love in Italian Storytelling, (General Ed. Course Taught in English), 2020-2021
    • Ital. 224- Cultural Intersections: an Exploration Through Italian Music, Literature, Movies, and Food, (Italian), Fall 2017
    • Ital. 402- Changing Notions of Reality in Italian Literature Between the 19th and 20th Centuries, (Italian), Fall 2015
    • Ital. 470- Italian Literature Between Modern and Postmodern, (Italian), Fall 2012
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