Authors and Contributors
Dr. Daria Bozzato – Lead Author
Daria Bozzato is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Bryn Mawr College, where she coordinates the Italian language program and teaches 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.
Dr. Massimiliano Cirulli – Author
Born and raised in Rome, Italy, Massimiliano “Massi” Cirulli is an instructor of Italian, Spanish, and English. He received his Ph.D. in Romance Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Laurea in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Roma Tre, Italy.
Specialized in second language acquisition and contemporary Italian literature, cinema, and culture, Dr. Cirulli had worked as Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of the Italian language program at the University of Kansas until May 2022, when he moved back to Italy. He currently lives in Southern Italy, where he enjoys teaching Italian, English, and Spanish, working as a translator, and indulging in the slow life of the Italian countryside.
Dr. Chiara Benetollo – Contributor
Chiara Benetollo is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Bryn Mawr College, where she teaches 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.
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.
Ava Panetto – Contributor
Ava Panetto is a student at Haverford College studying Italian and neuroscience. While she is not working as a research intern in two behavioral developmental psychology labs, she enjoys learning more about the linguistic and cultural complexities of Italy.
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.