Core Faculty - Department of Italian

John Agnew

Distinguished Professor of Geography and Italian
E-mail: jagnew@geog.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-1713
Office: 1255 Bunche Hall

John Agnew (Ph.D. Ohio State) is Distinguished Professor of Geography and Italian. His principal field of research and teaching is political geography. His interests include place and politics in Italy, European urbanization, and the geopolitics of the world economy. He... » Read More About John Agnew

Massimo Ciavolella

Professor
E-mail: ciavolel@humnet.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-5943
Office: 340B Royce
Office Hours: Winter 2019, Not Teaching

Massimo Ciavolella studied at the Universities of Bologna, Rome, and British Columbia, where he received his Ph.D. in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He taught for many years at Carleton University (Ottawa) and at the University of Toronto before coming... » Read More About Massimo Ciavolella

Thomas Harrison

Professor
E-mail: harrison@humnet.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-8912
Office: 350 Royce
Office Hours: Winter 2019, Sabbatical

Thomas Harrison, Ph.D in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center, CUNY, is a Professor of Italian. He specializes in modern European intellectual history, literature, the comparative arts and film. He also researches contemporary Italian critical theory, music, the modernist novel... » Read More About Thomas Harrison

Andrea Moudarres

Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
E-mail: moudarres@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-1351
Office: 340C Royce
Office Hours: Winter 2019, T 2:00p-4:00p

Andrea Moudarres (Ph.D Yale University 2011) is Assistant Professor of Italian and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include Renaissance epic, Dante, Humanism, Machiavelli and political philosophy, and the presence of... » Read More About Andrea Moudarres

Lucia Re

Professor
E-mail: re@humnet.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-8907
Office: 354 Royce
Office Hours: Winter 2019, T 12:45p-1:45p & 5:00p-6:00p

Lucia Re (Ph. D in Comparative Literature, Yale University) is Professor of Italian at UCLA who also holds an appointment in the Department of Gender Studies. Her principal fields of study and teaching are modern and contemporary literature and culture. Her... » Read More About Lucia Re

Peter Stacey

Associate Professor of History and Italian
E-mail: pstacey@history.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-1567
Office: 5373 Bunche Hall

Peter Stacey (Ph.D. University of Cambridge, UK) is an Associate Professor of History with an appointment also in the UCLA Department of Italian. His primary research interests include Renaissance political theory and intellectual history. Professor Stacey was awarded a fellowship... » Read More About Peter Stacey

Dominic Thomas

Chair and Professor
E-mail: dominict@humnet.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-8923
Office: 224B Royce

Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Professor and Chair of the departments of French and Francophone Studies, Germanic Languages, Italian, and Scandinavian. He is CNN/ CNN International European Affairs Commentator, and author, co-author, editor or co-editor of works on contemporary... » Read More About Dominic Thomas

Elissa Tognozzi

Director of Language Program
E-mail: tognozzi@humnet.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-8910
Office: 340A Royce
Office Hours: Winter 2019, W 10:00a-12:00p & by appt.

Elissa Tognozzi, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, is Senior Lecturer SOE of Italian and Director of the Language Program. Her principal field of research and teaching is second-language acquisition. Her interests also include teaching culture, Renaissance literature and teaching... » Read More About Elissa Tognozzi

Stefania Tutino

Professor of History and Italian
E-mail: tutino@history.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-8909
Office: 7389 Bunche Hall

Stefania Tutino is an intellectual and cultural historian of post-Reformation Catholicism. She has published on the relationship between conscience and law in Catholic political thought, on the historical role played by the Society of Jesus in early modern Europe, on... » Read More About Stefania Tutino