Maria C. Pastore Passaro

Professor of Italian, received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the Graduate School and University Center of New York in 1987.  She taught at CUNY, at Fordham University, and has been teaching Italian Language and Literature at CCSU since 1989.  She has received Academic Honors from NEH, Agnelli Foundation, NIAF, Fulbright.  She was the recipient of the "Excellence in Teaching Award" at CCSU (1994), was nominated for CASE (1995), was awarded a Yale/Mellon grant (1996), was the recipient of three CCSU/AAUP grants (2000, 2001, 2002), was nominated for CSU Professor (2002), and received from the Modern Language Association of America " The Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies" (2004). 

She is the author of several short plays and translator of Longfellow's Michael Angelo, Tusiani's Gente Mia and Other Poems, Rind and All, The Fifth Season, and Tasso's King Torrismondo (Fordham University Press, 1997).  She is the author of Representation of Women in Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Texts (The Edwin Mellen, 2005), an editor and translator of Selected Writings of Girolamo Savonarola:  Religion and Politics 1490-1498 (Yale University Press, 2006), and contributed three essays to the Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies (2006). She has conducted scholarly research on the Middle Ages and Renaissance and has lectured in several Universities in the US and Europe. Her critical essays, poems, translations, and other creative works have been published in national and international scholarly journals.

 Since Summer 1995, she has led groups of students to Urbino, Perugia, Siracusa, Roma, Milano, and other Italian cities. 

 

 

 

 

Carmela Pesca

Carmela PESCA, Associate Professor of Italian, received the Laurea in Sociology from the University of Salerno, Italy, and the M.A. and Ph.D. in Italian Literature from the University of Connecticut. Before teaching at CCSU, she taught Italian in Mexico, Venezuela and, in the U.S., at the University of Connecticut and Trinity College. She has been teaching Italian language, literature, culture and civilization at CCSU since 1995.

 Her many research interests include Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Contemporary Italian Literature, as well as Film and Women Studies. She published the book La città maschera, a study on the image of the city in Renaissance comic theatre, and is the author of several critical essays on Italian culture, Renaissance literature and Dante, published in the U.S., England, Italy and Cuba. 

She collaborates with the CCSU Italian Resource Center, the Italian American Committee on Education and the Consular Education office of New York, and is involved in Language Teaching Development activities, Summer Programs in Italy, International Education and West European Studies.

 

 

SALZARULO, Angela

 

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