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Adriana Guarro Romero

Adriana Guarro Romero is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Italian at UCLA where she is currently working on her dissertation entitled Ties that Bind: Women and Friendship in…

Andrew Hiltzik

Andrew Hiltzik is a Ph.D. Candidate who focuses on the minor comic works of Machiavelli. Other research interests include representations of religion, love, sexuality, and obscenity in popular literature. He…

Emma Van Ness

Since filing her dissertation and receiving her Ph.D. in December 2013, Dr. Emma Van Ness has been both teaching at Ambrit International School in Rome and working on transforming her…

Brittany Asaro

Brittany Asaro received her Ph.D. in Spring 2013. Her dissertation, The Unseen Beloved: Love by Hearsay in Medieval and Early Modern Italian Literature, focuses on the topos of falling in…

Adriana Baranello

I was awarded my doctorate by the Department of Italian at the University of California, Los Angeles in June 2014. My dissertation is titled Fillia’s Futurism: Writing, Politics, Gender and…

Andrea Bini

Andrea Bini earned his Ph.D. from the UCLA department of Italian in 2011. In 2012, he won a two-year Mellon Junior Faculty Fellowship at Washington and Lee University, where he…

Valeria Koenigsberg

Valeria Koenigsberg is a second year graduate student, currently completing her M.A. A graduate of UCLA with a B.A. in French and a B.A. in Italian, she is enthusiastic to…