Professor of Italian

Year Joined RCNJ: 1986

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7408
• Email: rdangelo@ramapo.edu
• Office: B-205
• Office Hours: M 4:00-6:00 pm; R 12:00-2:00 pm

Education:

• B.S., Southern Connecticut State University
• M.S., Ph.D., Rutgers University

Courses Offered:

• Foundations of Italian I & II
• Intermediate Italian I & II
• Italian Cinema

Teaching Interests:

• Medieval Literature
• Renaissance

Research Interests:

• Medieval Literature
• Renaissance

Scholarly Activity:

Books

• Resisting Bodies: Narratives of Italian Partisan Women Annali D’Italianistica 2008
• Piersanti, Umberto Mount Olympus Translated and edited Salvatore Sciascia 2011

Conference Presentations

• “Resisting Bodies- Narratives of Italian Partisan Women,” Emory University April 2012
• “The Use of Cultural Events to Promote Studies in World Languages in General, in Italian, in Literature, and Culture” Global Education Conference Cypress November 20-25, 2011.
• EACLALS Triennial International Conference at Bogazici University, Istanbul. April 26-30 2011. ” Re-memories, Herstories and Hybrid Identities in Igiaba Scego’s Babilonia.”
• Conference on Romance Languages and Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. March 24-26 2011. “Sexuality, Sculpture, and Literature Censored: The Evidence of Fascism and World War II in the Arts.”
• AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian), May 25-30 2011 International conference in Erice, Sicily “The use of cultural events (at Ramapo College), to promote studies in Italian language, literature and culture.”
• “Approaches to Teaching Conflicting Memories of World War II in Italy,” International Conference at the University of Lecce/Italy May 2011