Faculty Guide

Title

Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies

Romance Studies

Expertise

Italian language; culture and literature instructor from beginning to advanced; Italian language course coordinator; language teaching methodology; ACTFL Italian tester; Italian film.

Profile

Currently developing new curriculum guidelines for all levels of Italian. Writing a new audio language course; cultural projects on Neapolitan writers and poets and their historical influence on theater, cinema, and music of Italian culture at large. Cultural projects on Italian Jewish culture and curriculum design for the Venetian Italian Jewish Anthology.

Awards and Honors

Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching (1997 - 1998)

Mazer Award (1995)

Courses Taught

FYS	48a	JustBooks: Voicing the Outrage of Silence, Social Justice and the Mafia
ITAL	10a	Beginning Italian
ITAL	20b	Continuing Italian
ITAL	30a	Intermediate Italian
ITAL	106a	Advanced Readings in Italian
ITAL	110a	Introduction to Italian Literature
ITAL	120b	Modern Italian Literature
ITAL	128a	Mapping Modern Italian Culture: Inherited Conflicts
ITAL	134b	Nella cultura ebraica italiana: cinema e letteratura

Scholarship

Italian Plus. Servino, Paola. Simon and Schuster, 2008.

Servino, Paola. "Salve." Rev. of Salve!, by Carla Larese Riga

Servino,Paola (author, editor, and voice-over). Speak and Read Essential Italian I. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004.

Servino,Paola. English II for Italian Speakers (author, editor, and voice-over). New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004.

Servino,Paola. Speak and Read Essential Italian III (author, editor, and voice-over). New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004.

Ciao! (video script and video manual for textbook). Servino,Paola. Hartcourt College Publisher, 2003.

Servino,Paola. English I for Italian Speakers I (author, editor, and voice-over). New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.

Servino,Paola. Speak and Read Essential Italian II (author, editor, and voice-over). New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.