Viviana Pezzera
Viviana Pezzera, Lecturer in Italian, is from Bergamo, Italy. She graduated from the University of Bologna with a degree in visual arts and an emphasis in theater. She received her…
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Arielle Saiber
Arielle Saiber is Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures at Bowdoin College and the 2018-2019 Charles Speroni Endowed Chair at the Department of Italian at the University of California, Los Angeles. Saiber’s…
Rebecca Temkin
Rebecca Temkin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of French and Francophone Studies. She received her B.A. with honors in French and Francophone Studies with a concentration in Human…
Juliana Mazzucotelli
Juliana Mazzucotelli is a Lecturer of French in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies (ELTS) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), affiliated with the Ecole Normale…
Marianna D. Birnbaum
Marianna D. Birnbaum was a literary scholar and cultural historian who taught at UCLA, first as a bibliographer in 1960 and later as a full-time faculty member in the Department…
Mary Kay Norseng
I joined the Scandinavian faculty at UCLA in the 1970s and since that time have been privileged to partake in the blessings and the curses of the humanistic endeavors of…
Ross Shideler
At UCLA, he served as Head of the Scandinavian Section for three years, Chair of Comparative Literature for ten years, and various academic senate committees including the Faculty Executive Committee,…
Franco Betti
Franco Betti (1932–2019) was a scholar of Italian and Central European literature and a longtime member of the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles. Born in Florence, Italy,…
Marga Cottino-Jones
Manga Cottino-Jones (1933–2022) was Professor Emerita of Italian in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at UCLA. A distinguished scholar of Italian literature and culture, her research focused…