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Graduate Students and Forlì Exchange Students

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Location: Herter Hall 305
Phone: (413) 545-6713

Graduate Students

Andrea Caluori   [email]

Born in the Bronx of a Neopolitan mother and Italian-American father, Andrea was exposed to the Italian culture at home and within the local Italian neighborhoods. She graduated cum laude from Mount Holyoke College with a degree in Art History and Italian. Her academic interests include Italian art and culture of New York City, particularly second generation language aquisition, Italian-American painting, immigration, and anti-fascist periodicals published in New York City and the Bronx. Through the University of Massachusetts she recently participated in the Luca Pacioli ITSOS Fellowship as an English Teaching Assistant in a technical high school outside of Milan. Currently she is entering as a graduate student in the M.A.T. program in the Italian Studies Program.

Simone Gugliotta   [email]

Simone Gugliotta holds a degree in languages (Italian and Portuguese) from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and a degree in Journalism from Universidade Federal Fluminense (RJ) in addition to a post-graduate certificate in Brazilian history from Universidade Candido Mendes (RJ). She is currently a graduate student in the Italian Studies program at UMASS. Simone was born in Rio de Janeiro and is the daughter of Sicilian and Calabrese immigrants to Brazil. Her passion for Italy started at home with her parents where their two Southern Italian dialects (Calabrese and Sicilian) were her first languages. Simone received two scholarships for Italian descendents born in Latina America to study in Italy: the America Latinissima (Rome and Calabria) and from the Region of Calabria to study at the Università Dante Alighieri. Simone has taught Italian and Portuguese in language schools and for private students at all levels since 1991, has experience teaching children in Montessori schools and has also been working as a staff and free-lance journalist since 1995 with the publications "Jornal do Commercio" and "Comunità Italiana."

Francesca Marelli   [email]

Ho studiato Lingue e Letterature Straniere a Milano e mi sono laureata nel 2004 con una tesi sulle strategie di comunicazione delle aziende culturali. Il teatro, in particolare quello italiano di narrazione, e la danza contemporanea sono le mie passioni. Nel 2008 ho vinto una borsa di studio che mi ha portato al Mount Holyoke College, dove ho lavorato come Teaching Assistant. Questa esperienza mi ha avvicinato al mondo dell'insegnamento e mi ha spinto a saperne di più.

David Master   [email]

David Master has a passion for communication in its various forms. At an early age, he fell in love with literature, including such classics as C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Charles Dickens' A Tale of two Cities. In addition, he was brought up tasting the fruits of Italian Cuisine, thanks to his mother and grandmother. David consequently became enamored of Italian culture. Having studied the Italian language in high school for three years, he continued his studies as an undergraduate. Throughout his undergraduate career, he studied in Italy on two separate occasions and upon each return, his passion for Italian deepened. David is mostly interested in Italian literature and Culture.

Daniel Monson   [email]

As a Classical Languages major at the University of Dallas, Daniel spent a semester abroad studying in Frattocchie di Marino in the Castelli region outside of Rome. A year after obtaining his B.A magna cum laude in Latin, he took the opportunity to return to Italy - this time to Rome - where he received an S.T.B. magna cum laude (theology) at the Pontificia Università Gregoriana. He continued in religious studies through the S.T.L. program at the University of St. Mary of the Lake until going to teach Latin in Cathedral High School, Springfield, Massachusetts. He has frequently worked translating in Italian, Spanish, French and Irish. His academic interests lie in classical European and Biblical literature, in the emergence of literature in Romance vernaculars, Western spirituality, and Celtic linguistic development.

Lorenza Stradiotti   [email]

Sono nata e cresciuta a Cremona, in Italia - piccola cittadina del Nord cara ai liutai di tutto il mondo! Ho studiato Lingue e Letterature Straniere all'Università degli Studi di Parma, e mi sono laureata nel 2005 cum laude con una tesi su The Color of Water di James McBride. Nel 2006 sono partita come borsista Fulbright per lavorare come Foreign Exchange Language Tutor a Bard College, NY, dove sono rimasta fino a Maggio 2008. È stato durante questi due anni di "esportazione della cultura italiana" che ho capito quanto meglio avrei voluto conoscerla. Questo desiderio mi ha spinto ad iscrivermi al MAT per completare la mia formazione di insegnante di lingua e cultura italiane a stranieri. I miei interessi accademici includono: l'acquisizione della L2, l'im/migrazione in America e in Italia, il colonialismo e il post-colonialismo, la letteratura migrante italiana, il passato coloniale italiano, l'autobiografia e l'identità, l'esperienza afroamericana.

Forlì Exchange Students, 2009-10

Our exchange students will arrive in the spring semester