Kristin Pitt, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, will be one of the speakers at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies’ Workshop in honor of its 50th anniversary: Latin American Studies: Present and Future, December 4, 2015.… Continue Reading »
At the Meeting of the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature on October 23, 2015, faculty of the department voted unanimously to endorse the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Faculty Senate Statement on Concealed Weapons (passed at the October 22, 2015 … Continue Reading »
Prof. Milli Konewko at the National Italian American Foundation Program
Simonetta Milli Konewko has participated at the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) ON CAMPUS program in Washington on October 16-18! http://www.niaf.org/programs/niafoncampus/… Continue Reading »
Kristin Pitt to present at National Women’s Studies Association conference on Precarity, November 2015
Kristin Pitt, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, will be presenting her research on “Precarious Families and Communities in Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light” as a part of the panel entitled “Sex Worker Activisms, Combating Human Trafficking, Slavery and State … Continue Reading »
The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences and Their Geographies.
Prof. Robin Pickering-Iazzi’s new book has just been released! “Using an array of cultural documents from 1990 to the present, including diaries, testimonies, fiction, online video postings, and anti-mafia social networks, Robin Pickering-Iazzi examines the myths, values, codes of behaviour, … Continue Reading »
Italian Distance Learning!
Connecting through Italian–Intermediate Italian courses are now available for UW-Parkside students! Thanks to Mary Iaquinta’s work with Ming Yu, Simonetta Milli Konewko, and Jody Forbeck, UW-Parkside students can now complete Italian 203 and 204 through distance learning.… Continue Reading »