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Giovanna BELLESIA, Professor of Italian Language and Literature; Ph.d. Romance Languages, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Smith Faculty Director 2009-2010
Monica GINANNESCHI
Our associate Director has welcomed and guided generations of Smith JYA students to Florence. She began working at Smith in 1983 and plans to continue for many more years. A native of Florence, Monica is an essential part of our program, she provides the necessary continuity to our system of rotating directors and is always ready to help everyone with love and enthusiasm for Smith and its community
Maria SUCCI-HEMPSTEAD, Dottore in lingue, Università di Bologna; M.A. in English, University of Kent in Canterbury
Smith Faculty Director 2010-2011
Serena GRATTAROLA, Laurea in Lettere, University of Padova, Italy; M.A. in Italian, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Smith Faculty Director 2008-2009
Alan PASCUZZI, BA Nazareth College of Rochester; MA Syracuse University, Florence, Italy; Ph.D Washington University; Fulbright Scholar in Florence 1995-96
An art historian and practicing artist, Alan Pascuzzi has been teaching Renaissance Art History and Renaissance painting and drawing techniques at Smith College in Florence since 2006. He also teaches at other American universities in Florence including NYU. Besides lecturing, he has his own studio where he works on private and public commissions in painting and sculpture in a traditional, renaissance style. He has several permanent public works around Florence in fresco, painting and sculpture.
Costanza MENCHI, Laurea in Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Firenze, con specializzazione in Storia del Costume e della Moda; M.A. Middlebury College, Vermont
Costanza Menchi has been teaching History of Fashion and Costume at Smith College in Florence since 2007. She also teaches at other American universities in Florence including NYU and Florida State University. Her areas of study and research interests are cinema, theatre, mass media, Italian costume and fashion history. She is currently studying the relationship between international cinema and the world of fashion as a mirror of societal changes.
Nicoletta PONS, Laurea in Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Firenze, con specializzazione in Storia dell’Arte; Dottorato di Ricerca in Storia dell’Arte, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
Nicoletta Pons, author of several books on Renaissance artists, such as Botticelli and Pollaiolo, has been teaching Art History at Smith College in Florence since 2007. She collaborates with the University of Florence at the Scuola di Specializzazione in Storia dell’Arte. She published numerous articles for specialized journals and is the editor of many catalogues of art exhibits and museums. She also teaches at Middlebury College in Florence.
Stefano SOCCI, Laurea in Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Firenze, con specializzazione in Storia del Cinema
Stefano Socci is a film critic and author of important books including the one on Bernardo Bertolucci (1996; 2nd edition 2003 and 3rd edition 2008) and another one on Fritz Lang (1995; 2nd edition 2005), film reviews and numerous essays published on specialized journals. He is currently working on his seventh book which is on Shakespeare in cinema. He teaches Storia dello Spettacolo at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan and History of Cinema and Film Direction at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. He has been teaching History of Italian Cinema at Smith College in Florence since 2001; he also teaches at Middlebury College, James Madison University and the University of Michigan and Wisconsin in Florence.
Franco FRANCESCHI, Laurea in Lettere Moderne, Università di Firenze; Dottorato di Ricerca in Storia Medievale, Università di Siena
Franco Franceschi is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Siena, in Arezzo. He spent a year doing research at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies-Villa I Tatti in Florence. He is a specialist in Italian Urban History and published books and articles including The Economy: Work and Wealth, in Short Oxford History of Italy, III, Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, ed. by J. M. Najemy (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004). He has been teaching a course on Medieval and Renaissance History of Florence at Smith College in Italy since 2005. He also teaches at Middlebury College in Florence.
Maria Paola Chatzinikolaou CECCHERINI, Laurea in Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Firenze; Master in Creative Writing, Università di Siena; Corso di perfezionamento post Laurea in Italianistica, Università di Firenze
Maria Paola Ceccherini has been teaching at Smith College in Florence since 1991. Over the years she taught Italian Geography, Stylistics, Literature, Language and Culture, and a course on Italian Poetry with a writing workshop in the Spring 2008. She has a long experience in teaching at American programs in Florence both at undergraduate and graduate level, including Middlebury College, Pennsylvania State University, Associated Colleges of the Midwest, University of Arizona, College of William and Mary and Pepperdine University.
Rosalba DE FILIPPIS, Laurea in Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Firenze, con specializzazione in Lettere Moderne
Rosalba De Filippis taught at Pepperdine University in Florence from 1993 to 1997 and has been teaching Italian Language and Stylistics at Smith College in Florence since 1993. She also teaches Literature, History and Philosophy at a High School. She is a poetry critic and wrote articles and reviews for specialized journals. She also writes poetry and she is publishing her second collection of poems, Il filo forte del liuto. In 2007 she published Sotto nevi di carta, that was enthusiastically welcomed by literary critics.
Laura DI POFI, Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Università di Cassino
Laura Di Pofi has been teaching Italian Language and Stylistics at Smith College in Florence since 2001. In 1999-2001 she taught at Smith College in Northampton as Teaching Assistant at the Italian Department and at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. In Spring 2008 she spent a semester teaching at the Italian Department in Northampton. She is also teaching a graduate course on Teoria e pratica della scrittura at Middlebury College in Florence. She published the article “Standard Italian or Dialect? When, Where, Why?”, OTHER ITALIES/ITALY’S OTHERS, METAMORPHOSES 14.1-2, FALL AND SPRING 2006.
Francesca SERRA, Laurea in Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Firenze, con specializzazione in Letteratura Italiana Moderna e Contemporanea; Dottorato di Ricerca in Italianistica, Università di Firenze
Francesca Serra was Ricercatrice at the University of Florence for 4 years; she is currently teaching courses at the University of Florence, the University of Trento and the University of Siena. Among her publications there are several essays on Palazzeschi, Calvino, Deledda and other important Italian authors. Since 2006 she has been teaching courses on different topics of Italian Literature including the Survey II at Smith College in Florence. She also teaches at Middlebury College, Syracuse University and Sarah Lawrence College in Florence.
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