Paola Gambarota's book Irresistible Signs (Toronto University Press 2011) was awarded First Prize in the 2011 AAIS Book Award competition, 18th and 19th centuries category.

 

Elena Borelli got a job as tenure-track Assistant Professor at Bronx Community College starting in the fall 2013.

 

Recent Honors Thesis

Valerie Weiss, The Redefinition of Culture Through Words: A Study of Critical Futurist Terms, Spring 2011. Advisor, Paola Gambarota

 

Steven Manicastri, Antonio Gramsci: Prospettive radicali sulla Questione Meridionale [Antonio Gramsci: Radical Perspectives on the ‘Southern Question’] Fall 2011. Advisor, Andrea Baldi

 

Roberto Nicosia has received the Mellon-Funded Residential Summer Worskshop at Warwick University in the United Kingdom in the Summer 2012

 

Professor Paola Gambarota has received the Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence as one of the university's most distinguished young faculty members. this award is bestowed in recognition of her teaching accomplishments in her years at Rutgers, as documented in the evaluation that has led to her recent promotion to Associate Professor with tenure.

 

Daniele DeFeo, Elena Borelli, and Francesco Pascuzzi were awarded a departmental recognition for redesigning the Placement Test for incoming students at the recent Alumni Dinner on March 30.

 

Prof. Rhiannon Welch was hired as the new tenure-track Assistant Professor. She got her Ph.D. from Berkeley in 2008, was a post-doc at Cornell University for two years, and is now teaching at the University of California-Santa Cruz. At Rutgers, Rhiannon will teach courses on 20th-century literature, cinema, and theory, and she will also participate in Cinema Studies, which is part of the Program in Comparative Literature. We welcome her as part of the faculty and we are thrilled to have her as one of us. She will be a great addition to the program.

 

Elena Borelli, Ph.D. candidate, received the Graduate School Dissertation Teaching Award

 

Arianna Fognani and Marino Forlino each received a Graduate School Pre-Dissertation/Special Study support scholarship to conduct research in Italy in the summer 2012.