Italian/Faculty and Staff

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faculty

Amy Boylan

Assistant Professor of Italian

G10G Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3551
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: amy.boylan@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., University of California at Los Angeles, 1992
M.A., San Francisco State University, 1997
M.A., University of California at Los Angeles, 2000
Ph.D., ibid., 2006

Courses Taught:
ITAL 522: Italian Literature in Translation
ITAL 632: Advanced Conversation and Composition

Fields of Research:
national memorials in Italian literature and art

Mayder Dravasa

Lecturer

319 Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1578
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: m.dravasa@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., Albertus Magnus College, 1981
Ph.D., Yale University, 1991

Courses Taught:
ITAL 401/402: Elementary Italian
TTAL 503/504: Intermediate Italian

Piero Garofalo

Associate Professor of Italian, Coordinator of the Italian Program, and Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

210H Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3769
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: pg@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1988
M.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1991
Ph.D., ibid., 1996

Courses Taught:
ITAL 525: Italian Cinema
LLC 540: Film History
ECS 400: Europe
ITAL 500: Topics in World Literature
ITAL 632: Advanced Conversation and Composition
ITAL 652: Intro Italian Culture and Civilization II
ITAL 733: History and Development of the Italian Language

Fields of Research:
Italian cinema, Romanticism, Modernism, Translation Studies

Darby Tench Leicht

Senior Lecturer

G10L Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1338
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: darbytench@yahoo.com

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
B.A., Yale University, 1978
M.A., Middlebury College, 1980
Ph.D., Yale University, 1987

Courses Taught:
ITAL 401/402: Elementary Italian
ITAL 425: Introduction to Italian Studies
ITAL 503/ 504: Intermediate Italian
ITAL 631/632: Advanced Italian Conversation and Composition
ITAL 651: Introduction to Italian Culture and Civilization I: Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque
ITAL 652: Introduction to Italian Culture and Civilization II: Age of Enlightenment, Romanticism, Modernism

Fields of Research:
nineteenth-century verismo in literature and opera

Staff

Barbara Armstrong

Administrative Assistant III

210L Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-4005
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: bba@cisunix.unh.edu