La Lingua Tagliente: verbal engagement in Italian culture

Friends of the Burritt Library & The Italian Resource Center

Present a lecture by Dr. Felice Italo Beneduce

Department of Italian at Columbia University

Thursday, December 5th, 2019 at 6:30PM

Special Collections, 2nd floor, Burritt Library

 Dr. Beneduce’s scholarly interests include the fantastic in contemporary Italian literature and cinema; Italian-American literature and cinema; Immigrant Literature in Italy; Cultural and Translation Studies; Primo Levi and Judaic Italian Studies. Dr. Beneduce earned his Ph.D in Italian Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Connecticut. He also holds a laurea in Italian/English Translation Studies from the University of Trieste (Italy).

Refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.

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