Authors and Contributors

Dr. Daria Bozzato – Lead Author

Daria Bozzato is an independent scholar and former Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Bryn Mawr College, where she coordinated the Italian language program and taught all levels of Italian language classes and interdisciplinary courses on Italian cinema, the culture of food, and the intersection of science and the humanities.

Trained in Portuguese Studies at the La Sapienza University of Rome and in Italian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Bozzato has written about language pedagogy and the influence of theosophy, spiritualism, and the occult on Futurist oeuvre as a return to a primitive sensibility. She is currently working on the interplay of photography, film, and science in the representation of mentally ill people.

In Voci, Dr. Bozzato created all the 10 textbook units, the introduction, the authors and contributors, acknowledgments, list of pictures and videos, note of the authors, table of content, verb charts, and LIS sections. She edited the Pressbook platform with the help of Ava Panetto, revised the cultura, vocabulary, grammar, and homework sections. In addition, she created all the homework exercises in Units 8-10. Finally, she found all the videos and pictures in the textbook and homework, and created and uploaded all the audio files. With the help of Ava Panetto, she manually inserted the credits and the description of each picture shown in Voci.

Dr. Chiara Benetollo – Author

Chiara Benetollo is the Director of Program Development at the Petey Greene Program, and former Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Bryn Mawr College, where she taught beginning courses in Italian and advanced seminars on myth-making in literature, politics and the arts, on the intersection of scientific and politica rhetoric, and on the experience of imprisonment.

Trained as a comparatist at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy and Princeton University, Dr. Benetollo works on legal, political, and medical problems in the humanities. She has written about editorial and linguistic exchanges between Russia, Italy, and France, on the theory and practice of translation, and the representation of childbirth, pain, and natality in the Soviet Union and Italy during the Cold War.

In Voci, Dr. Benetollo created the cultura, vocabulary, and grammar sections. She also found all the pictures included in the cultura sections. Finally, she helped with the verb charts, the introduction, and note of the authors sections.

Dr. Metello Mugnai – Author

Metello Mugnai is an Associate Professor of Italian and Spanish at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, where he coordinates the Italian language program and teaches all levels of Italian language and culture classes. He received his Ph.D. in Romance Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Laurea in Italian Literature from the University of Florence, Italy.

Specialized in Italian cinema, Italian music, and contemporary Italian literature, Dr. Mugnai has written about marginalized people, adaptations of stories and hypotexts, and trash studies. His research interests also include second language acquisition, and scholarship of teaching and learning.

In Voci, Dr. Mugnai created all the homework exercises in Units 1-7.

Olivia Colace – Contributor

Olivia Colace is a linguistics major and premedical student at Bryn Mawr College. She is particularly interested in medical communication and misinformation, exploring trust, and humanizing medicine. She is also a student manager at Wyndham Alumnae House at Bryn Mawr and a volunteer EMT at Narberth Ambulance.

Olivia is an avid music lover and sings with the Haverford-Bryn Mawr Chamber Singers,. If she has any time to spare (which she usually doesn’t), you might find her up late baking, knitting, or getting very excited about historical fashion. Olivia has loved exploring her Italian heritage by studying Italian at Bryn Mawr, and is very honored to have been able to contribute to this textbook.

In Voci, Olivia helped with the translation of the directions of the textbook and homework exercises in Units 1-5. She also reviewed the English used in the introduction, the authors and contributors, acknowledgments, note of the authors, and grammar sections. Finally, she worked on uploading all the homework exercises on the college Moodle.

Ava Panetto – Contributor

Ava Panetto was a student at Haverford College studying Italian and neuroscience.

Contributing to this textbook has given her an opportunity to further immerse herself in the welcoming, vibrant atmosphere of the Transnational Italian Studies department at Bryn Mawr. Ava hopes to use the interdisciplinary knowledge she has gleaned to better understand reproductive health from its different scientific and humanistic angles and to one day practice medicine.

After doing a workshop on digital media with Michael Zarafonetis and Haverford Library during the summer of 2021, Ava worked with Dr. Bozzato on the editing of Voci on the Pressbook platform. She manually inserted the credits and the description of each picture shown in Voci. She also reviewed the English used in the directions’ translation of the textbook and homework exercises in Units 1-5.