Italian Studies Faculty

Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures
300 High Street 306
860-685-3087

Chair, Romance Languages & Literatures
860-685-3087

Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
860-685-3087

Hollis Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

enerenberg@wesleyan.edu

AB Stanford University
AM University of Chicago
PHD University of Chicago

ITAL221 - 01
Advanced Italian I

ITAL249 - 01
Italian Cultural Identities

FIST245 - 01
Italian Cinema, Italian Societ

Office Hours:
Spring semester 2012: By appt.

Research Interests:
Prison Terms (U of Toronto P, 2001, winner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize from the Modern Language Association) concerned the spaces of confinement in Italian narrative between the years 1930 and 1960. Murder Made in Italy: Homicide, Media, and Contemporary Italian Culture (U of Indiana P, 2012) concerns the cultural significance of three post-1989 murder cases. These cases include the serial murders attributed to the "Monster of Florence," the matricide and fratricide case for which Erika De Nardo and Omar F`varo were convicted, and the conviction of Annamaria Franzoni for the murder of her three-year old son Samuele. Body of State: The Moro Affair, A Nation Divided (Fairleigh-Dickinson U P, 2011), a collaboration with two other colleagues, offers a translation of Marco Baliani's acclaimed dramatic monologue about the kidnapping and assassination of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, setting it in the context of critical edition including an introduction, an interview with the artist, and an appendix of reviews of Baliani's 2009 North American tour

Scholarly Keywords:
Twentieth-century Italian Literature, Italian Cinema, Italian Cultural Studies

Academic Associations:
Modern Languages Association, American Association for Italian Studies, American Association of Teachers of Italian

Adjunct Instructor in Romance Languages & Literatures
300 High Street 301
860-685-3587

dviale@wesleyan.edu

MA University of Torino
MALS University of Pennsylvania

ITAL101 - 01
Elementary Italian I

ITAL111 - 01
Intermediate Italian I

ITAL111 - 02
Intermediate Italian I

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Monday 1:30 to 3:30, Wednesday 2:00 to 3:00 and by appointment.

Scholarly Keywords:
Second language pedagogy; Italian history and culture of the 20th and 21st centuries