Italian/Middletown:
Podcasting Middletown's Italian Treasures
Below are the podcast episodes produced by students enrolled in ITAL225: Italian/Middletown: Podcasting Middletown's Italian Treasures, a course taught by Professor Ellen Nerenberg in Fall 2024 and Fall 2025.
How does Middletown's Italian past link to its present? And to Wesleyan? Where can we find Italian "treasures" on campus and off? Using these guiding principles, students in the course learned about the history of Middletown's Italian community and conducted a hunt for Italian treasures to explore and study. Throughout the semester, students produced several short audio assignments and eventually collaborated on editing and producing 55-min podcast episodes which were broadcast on Wesleyan's WESU.