Education
- Laurea, Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bologna, Italy, 1992
- M.A., Translation Studies, Warwick University, UK, 1993
- Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin, USA, 2000
About Dr Gaudenzi
Dr. Cosetta Gaudenzi is Associate Professor of Italian and Section Head of the Italian Program at the University of Memphis and has recently joined the executive committee of the American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS) as Vice President. She has a Laurea from the University of Bologna, Italy; a Master's degree in Translation Studies from the University of Warwick, UK; and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. She has taught Italian language and culture at the University of Texas at Austin; the College of Charleston; the University of Georgia, Athens; and Gettysburg College. At the University of Memphis she has been offering courses in Italian language (in person and online), cinema and Dante, Recently, she joined the Honors Forum and taught the course "Food Culture and Italian Identity". Her publications address issues in Italian cinema, including “Translating and Adapting Cinema Across Borders: American Remakes of Italian Films in the Twenty-first Century,” “Marco Bellocchio’s Buongiorno, notte and the Language of the Brigate Rosse,” and “Memory, Dialect, Politics: Linguistic Strategies in Fellini’s Amarcord;” as well as the reception of Dante in the English-speaking world, with works such as “Dante’s Introduction to the United States as Investigated in Matthew Pearl’s The Dante Club,” “Dante, British Epic and Women’s Education,” and “Gothic Translations of Dante’s Ugolino Episode in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Great Britain.”