Welcome from the Italian Graduate Advisor
Welcome to the Indiana University graduate programs in Italian. Please take some time to look through this web site and send us any inquiries you might have.
We are a small but distinguished faculty comprised of six professors with research interests ranging from Dante to Fellini, and from illuminated manuscripts to the TV series The Sopranos. We regularly offer courses in medieval, Renaissance, early modern, 19th and 20th century literature and culture. Recent seminar topics have included Umberto Eco, “Making Petrarch’s Canzoniere,” “The Italian Pastoral,” “Il tema della frontiera,” "Italian Film Culture from Fascism to Neorealism," and “History of the Italian Language.” Our varied course offerings are augmented by a lively series of lectures by guest speakers. In 2004-05, our department welcomed acclaimed Italian novelist Claudio Magris, Francesco Bruni (University of Venice), Davide Stimilli (University of Colorado), William Kennedy (Cornell University), and Alvaro Barbieri (University of Verona).
We invite you to look through the list of our faculty and their recent publications in order to appreciate the breadth of faculty research involvement. Faculty and graduate students interact in a variety of ways, from the classroom to informal mentoring, to meetings of the Circolo Italiano. Most of our graduate students are employed as Associate Instructors in Italian language courses, where they gain valuable teaching experience and funding to support their studies. They receive excellent training before assuming these teaching responsibilities and continued supervision throughout the academic year. Our best advanced AIs have the opportunity to earn an additional stipend through course coordination. Summer teaching is also available, both through the undergraduate academic program in Florence and on the Bloomington campus.
Graduates of our program are well-rounded scholars whose teaching experience has served them well. Recent Ph.D graduates have obtained academic posts at superb universities and colleges such as Notre Dame, Ohio University, and Fordham. The job search is facilitated through our departmental Career Placement Service, which sends letters of reference on behalf of our student applicants.
We are proud of our tradition of academic excellence and are dedicated to sustaining a stimulating environment for our graduate student scholars. Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions.
Sincerely,
Prof Marco Arnaudo
Graduate Advisor in Italian
