Chris Picicci

Italian graduate teaching fellow

Contact info:
Office: FR 30A
Phone: (541) 346-4203
cpicicci@uoregon.edu


Degrees, years, and locations:
University of Oregon, Ph.D. Romance Languages, in progress
University of Oregon, M.A., Romance Languages (Spanish and Italian) (2002)
Gonzaga University, B.A.
Double major in Italian Studies and Spanish, minor in English (1999)

Research and teaching interests:
Italian and Peninsular Spanish literature of the late Renaissance with an emphasis on epic poetry; Gender Studies and colonial Latin America;
Film studies and Italian cinema; Spanish Picaresque Novel; Italian Baroque Art history, especially Caravaggio and Bernini.

Courses taught:
Taught beginning (100 level), intermediate (200 level), intensive and accelerated summer courses in Italian;
Ital. 307 (oral skills) and 151 (Italian cinema).
Spanish language (2005-2006)

Publications:
Il Cannocchiale Nell Immaginario Barocco by Andrea Battistini, translation to be published fall 2005.
Participated in a translation of Una bambina e basta (Only a little girl) by Lia Levi into English with Prof. Gabriella Brooke of Gonzaga University.
Translated operas from Italian into English for Spokane International Translation.