Loyola University Chicago

Faculty for Fall / Spring

• Adams, Kathleen
• Balanzino, Sergio Silvio
• Capitini, Bruna
• Cavallo, Susana
• Conti, Marco
• Di Biagi, Flaminio
• Evers, Alexander
• Fabretti, Lorenza
• Faramondi, Elena
• Foust, Lee
• Geoghehan, Elizabeth
• Giacchetti, Stefano
• Hentges, James
• Iodice, Emilio  
• Langer, Marshall
• Lodici, Claudio
• Maclaren, Sarah Fiona
• Mannino, Roberto
• Mezran, Karim
• Nicholson, Eric
• Nicholson, John
• O'Connor, Bernard J. 
• Orlandino, Euridice
• Palladino, Maria
• Renczes, Philipp Gabriel, S.J.
• Sanchez, Peter M.
• Schwarten, James R.
• Scichilone, Giovanni
• Sotis, Grazia 
• Waller, Todd W.
• White, Debora
• Wingenter, Anne
• Zammar, Leila

Faculty

                                                                                                                                                        Kathleen M. Adams is a Professor of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago and an Adjunct Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History. She has taught at Loyola since 1993. Previously she was an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Beloit College, where she held the Mouat Family Endowed Chair in International Studies. She is the author of Art as Power: Recrafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia (University of Hawaii Press 2006),  and co-editor of Home and Hegemony: Domestic Work and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2000), as well as A Changing Indonesia (a special issue of Southeast Asia Journal of Social Science, 2000). She has also published articles on ethnic relations, arts, cultural representations and tourism in a variety of edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals, including American Ethnologist, Ethnology, Ethnohistory, Museum Anthropology, Cultural Survival Quarterly, Annals of Tourism Research, and Tourist Studies. Dr. Adams has received fellowships and grants from various foundations including Fulbright and the American Philosophical Society and she was awarded Loyola University’s Sujack Award for Teaching Excellence in 2007. Currently she serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of the Association for Asian Studies and The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. As an American with a French mother and an Italian grand-mother, she is looking forward to launching into teaching and research in Italy.

 Ambassador Sergio Silvio Balanzino graduated in Law from the    University of Rome and entered the Italian Foreign Service where he  served in the Directorate for Economic Affairs and the Press and Information service. Among his foreign assignments he served at the OECD in Paris as secretary to the permanent Italian Mission, in Neuchatel as Vice Consul, in Zurich as Deputy Consul General, and in Nairobi as Counselor. After having served at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome as head of the Bureau of the Technical Co-operation Service for developing countries, he became first Counselor in Athens (1975-1978) and then in Ottawa (1978-1982), where he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary until 1982. Both in Athens and Ottawa he was in charge of the NATO Special Secretariat and NATO Affairs. Returning to the Foreign Ministry in Rome, he served in the Department for Development and Co-operation, and was promoted to Minister Plenipotentiary First Class in 1986. He was shortly appointed Deputy Director of the Cultural Relations Directorate at the Foreign Ministry and became Director General in 1988. Mr. Balanzino was Ambassador to Canada from May 1990 to January 1994. He assumed office as Deputy Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on February 1, 1994 and was appointed Ambassador in December 1995. Ambassador Balanzino is married and has one son.

                                                                                                                                                         Bruna Capitini earned her Laurea cum laude from l'Universita degli Studi L Sapienza in Rome and she holds Italian State Qualifications at the highest levels to teach Italian Language and Literature, Latin, History and Geography.  She has undertaken extensive post-graduate studies in educational psychology and counseling, teaching and learning strategies and academic evaluation methodologies.  She has used these diverse specialties to forge approaches to the teaching of Italian language, history, and culture through the use of literature and artifacts.  Professor Capitini has been working with students at the John Felice Rome Center for many years.  She has been a tenured member of the faculty at istituti Istruzione Superiore Statali since 1978, and she also offers intensive courses for ecclesiastical students from the Pontificia Universita Gregoriana.  She has extensive teaching experience as she has been an instructor in seminars for students from widely diverse linguistic backgrounds, ages, and various levels.   

Susana Cavallo, Ph.D., Professor of Spanish & Associate Director of the John Felice Rome Center, has held several administrative positions at Loyola: Director of Latin American Studies, Graduate Program Director of Spanish, and most recently, Chair of the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures. Dr. Cavallo received her doctorate in Romance Languages & Literatures from the University of Chicago in 1980, and began teaching at Loyola in 1982, as Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures. A specialist in Twentieth-century Hispanic Poetry, Women’s Narrative, Feminist Theory, and Poetics and Prosody, Cavallo is also a poet, translator, pianist and composer. She has translated into English works by Claribel Alegría, José Hierro, Susana March, and Francisco Brines. Among her publications are La poética de José Hierro, El sujeto femenino en escritoras hispánicas, edited in collaboration with Luis Jiménez and Oralia Preble-Niemi, and numerous articles for U.S. and Spanish journals and newspapers on twentieth-century Hispanic literature. Dr. Cavallo is currently working on a critical edition of the poetry of the late Catalonian writer, Susana March. She is delighted to join the JFRC community, and looks forward to developing courses on her most recent research interest: the literature of immigration, specifically the writings of Italian American women, and Middle Eastern and African women immigrants to the Mediterranean.

Marco Conti was born in Rome in 1961. After obtaining a degree in Classical Literature (Laurea in Lettere Classiche) at the university “La Sapienza” in Rome, he moved to Leeds (UK) to begin a graduate course in Classics. In 1991 he gained a MA in Classics by research at the university of Leeds (School of Classics), and in 1996 a PhD in Classics at the same university. In the fall semester of 1996 he worked as a teaching assistant in History of Christianity at the university of Manchester, and as a teaching assistant in Latin and Greek language at the university of Leeds. In 1997 he moved to Durham (UK) where he worked as a research fellow in Greek and Latin Patristics until 2000. At the moment he teaches Medieval Latin Literature at the Università Pontificia Salesiana and Latin language at the Pontificio Istituto Liturgico Anselmiano.  He also gives courses on Classical Mythology and Religions in Late Antiquity at the Richmond university. With Brepols he has published a monograph in 1998 (Marco Conti, The Life and Works of Potamius of Lisbon, (Instrumenta Patristica  XXXII) (ISBN 2-503-50688-7) Brepols, Turnhout  1998) and a critical edition of the works of Potamius of Lisbon (Marco Conti, Potamii Olisponensis opera omnia (Corpus Christianorum - Series Latina LXIXA) (ISBN 2-503-00694-9) Brepols, Turnhout  1999). His latest publication is a volume in the series Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, Edited by Marco Conti. ISBN-978-0-8308-1475-6. Inter Varsity Press Downers Grove, Illinois, June 2008). In the same series he has also edited the volume on Job together with Manlio Simonetti (2006), and the volume on Genesis 1-11 in collaboration with Andrew Louth (2001). At the moment is about to publish a complete translation with text, introduction and commentary of the works of Priscillian of Avila in the series Oxford Early Christian Studies of the Oxford University Press.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Flaminio Di Biagi, full-time professor of Italian at the Rome Center since 1989, graduated from the University of Rome with a doctorate in comparative literature, holds a Ph.D. in Italian literature from New York University and a Master of Arts in Romance Languages from the University of Washington. He has published Sotto l'arco di Tito: le "Farfalle" di Gozzano, a book of literary criticism on the early 1900s poet Guido Gozzano, and Il cinema a Roma: guida alla storia e ai Luoghi dei cinema nella capitale, a book on the history of film production in/about the city of Rome from the late 19th century to the end of the 20th. It also contains a helpful appendix of sites in or near Rome where various films have been shot. Dr. Di Biagi has taught Italian (language, film, and literature) in several American universities (most recently as Visiting Professor at the College of Charleston), has published articles on Italian writers and cinema, various essays on Italian-American studies, and has translated classic authors such as Conrad (Heart of Darkness, The Secret Sharer, Tales of Unrest), London (The Game), and D.H. Lawrence(Kangaroo) from English into Italian. He also edited critical editions of Herman Melville's "Billy Budd," and Guido Gozzano's "Verso la cuna del mondo: lettere dall'India."

Alexander Evers, D.Phil. in Ancient History from Oxford University, has been a Lecturer at Utrecht University in The Netherlands since 2000. Prior to that, he served as a tutor in Ancient History at Brasenose College in Oxford and also as assistant dean (1998-1999). Outside his academic profession, Professor Evers has been a research assistant for the P.J. Meertens Institute in Amsterdam (2001-2003), chairman of the Liturgy Committee for the 150th anniversary of the restoration of the Episcopal Hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in The Netherlands (2002-2003), and a spokesman of the Bishop of Rotterdam, Head of the Diocesan Press Office (2003-2004). He is fluent in Dutch, English, Italian, German, and French. He is also a practising musician, playing organ and piano, both as a soloist and accompanying choirs, and he sings with the Venerabile Cappella 'Giulia' of the Basilica Vaticana of San Pietro in Rome. He has three works forthcoming: "Cyprianus van Carthago: interactic tussen kerk en wereld," in ?rechtse Studies, "Gratian and the pontifical robe," in Scripta Classica Israelica, and Church, Cities, and People. A Study of the Plebs in the Church and Cities of Roman Africa. Leuven: Peeters.

Lorenza Fabretti is the coordinator of the JFRC Internship program.  She holds a Master's degree from the University of Bologna in Economics and Development where she focused on refugee and migrant populations from the ex- Yugoslavia.  Lorenza also holds a degree in Social Anthropology and Linguistics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.  She worked in the field of elections and human rights for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in the Balkan region  She served as a project manager for the International Commission for Missing Persons based in Sarajevo.  In addition, she has worked with non governmental organizations in the Basque region of Spain and currently serves as an English and Italian instructor for immigrants living in Rome. 

Lee Foust

Elizabeth Geoghegan  

                                                                                                                                                       Emilio Iodice, Professor of Business, is the Associate Provost and Director of the John Felice Rome Center (JFRC). Before accepting this position, Professor Iodice taught business courses at Trinity University, located in Washington, DC. While at Trinity University he advised over 200 students, served on a number of committees, and was active within the university’s administration. Prior to his time at Trinity, Professor Iodice served as the Executive Vice President at Skylink USA, where he was responsible for business development of aviation services and security of the company’s global operations. He also served as Vice President of Lucent Technologies and was responsible for the operations and sales of one of the firm’s largest divisions. Professor Iodice earned his B.A. in Economics from Fordham University, an MBA from Bernard Baruch University in New York and conducted doctoral studies in International Business and Applied Economics at George Washington University. At age 33, Professor Iodice was named by the President of the United States to the prestigious Senior Executive Service. As a top executive in the U.S. Government, he served in the White House, U.S. Department of Treasury, and U.S. Department of Commerce. In the U.S. Foreign Service he served as Minister for Commercial Affairs at the American Embassies in Rome, Paris, Madrid, Mexico City, and Brasilia. Complementing his extensive and impressive track record of professional management of cross-cultural operations and administrative experience in higher education are personal passions that align with Loyola University Chicago’s mission, values, and vision. He was raised and educated in the Jesuit tradition and is fluent in Italian, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Professor Iodice brings to his position at the JFRC a passion for excellence, a dedication to service, and a gift for community.

                                                                                                                                                       Marshall Langer has been a University professor since 2001.  Trained psycho-dynamic group counselor (ran professional groups for executives in New York).  Twelve years professional work experience in U.S. for multinational corporations.  Wharton MBA, New York University Masters coursework in Counseling Psychology.  Teaching experience includes: adjunct university instructor for graduate and undergraduate Management, Marketing, Finance, and Operations at New York University Stern Business School, Fordham University, University of Connecticut, American University of Rome, University of Malta Link Campus Rome, Loyola University Rome.  Prior work experience on Wall Street in Investment Banking (Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette) and Trading (Banque Paribas).  Five years corporate management, marketing strategy, management consulting, real estate.   

Claudio Lodici earned his degree at the University of Rome in the school of political science studying international relations and is the author of several research articles on international affairs, security policy, decision-making processes and Third Way policies in the Information Age. He presently works as an advisor for public affairs in the office of the Speaker of the Italian Senate. Prof. Lodici contributed a chapter to a book on labor relations - Storia delle relazioni industriale in Italia - 1958-1970 , co-authored a book on industrial policies in Italy from 1945 to 1984 - Storia della politica industriale in Italia dal dopoguerra ad oggi, but his major work was published in 1996: L'America dei Democratici - da Thomas Jefferson a Bill Clinton, a 398-page volume entirely dedicated to the history of the Democratic Party in the U.S. His most recent book is Third Way - The Global Challenge. Prof. Lodici writes a regular column for The Italian-American Democrat, a newsletter of the Italian-American Democratic Leadership Council, and contributes to Italy's oldest scientific review, La Nuova Antologia, established in Florence in 1866.

Sarah Fiona Maclaren has been teaching "Italy Today" (Sociology) at the John Felice Rome Center since 1999. She earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy (University of Rome, Tor Vergata) and her Laurea in Cultural and Social Anthropology (University of Rome, La Sapienza). She is the author of the books Magnificenza e mondo classico (Rome, 2003) and La magnificenza e il suo doppio. Il pensiero estetico di Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Milan, 2005). The latter was presented at the Academia nazionale di San Luca, in Rome, by Liliana Barroero, Portia Prebys, Luigi Russo and John Wilton-Ely. She is on the editorial board of the journal Ágalma. Rivista di studi culturali e estetica. She collaborates with the chair of Aesthetics at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. Her interests focus on Social Studies, Cultural Studies and Aesthetics on which she has published several articles and translations. She is fluent in English, Italian and Portuguese. In 2004 she spent the Spring semester at the University of Kyoto, Japan, where she did research on links between the Italian and the Japanese cultures. She has given conferences in Italy, Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, Brazil and Argentina. Her current fields of research are: exploring the social and cultural aspects of traditional crafts and “studio crafts” in Italy and Japan; analyzing aesthetic concepts in contemporary Japanese architecture; and finally a social and anthropological study in Pernambuco, North-East of Brazil. Amongst her latest publications: Piranesi y la magnificencia de las aguas de Roma, Revista de Occidente, 306, Madrid, Noviembre, 2006 (in Spanish); Studio Craft. Una produzione tra arte e artigianato in A. Caoci & F. Lai (eds.), Gli “oggetti culturali”. L’artigianato tra estetica, antropologia e sviluppo locale, (Milan, 2007); L’architettura magnifica di Achilles G. Rizzoli, “Ágalma”, n. 14, 2007. She is a member of the Instituto Arqueológico, Histórico e Geográfico Pernambucano (Recife, Brazil).

Roberto Mannino was born in Rome, Italy, in 1958. He holds a both an Italian and American Sculpture Degree. He has worked consistently in the Printmaking field (intaglio and woodcut) in the early 80s, later concentrating on more three-dimensional work (soft and textile sculptures and installation) after that period. In 1991 he started his education career teaching as Adjunct Professor, lecturer and Visiting Critic at US Art Colleges abroad in many disciplines. His first approach to Papermaking was in 1994 and soon became fully dedicated to the process. His work still ranges a lot in terms of size, format and subject matter, from watermarks, to site specific installations driven by curiosity and experimentation. His favorite choice of fibers are flax, hemp and tracing paper. Mannino has been a IAPMA member since 1996 and has attended seven of their Congresses. His work is visible at www.robertomannino.it

John Nicholson received his Ph.D. from the University of Louvain, Belgium. Before joining the faculty of the Rome Center in 1968, he had taught at the University of Ottawa and at Xavier Junior College in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Dr. Nicholson has extensive teaching experience both in the fields of philosophy and history of art. In philosophy he has specialized in theories of art and aesthetics and in history of art he has given courses on the artistic heritage of Italy and of Rome in particular. Dr.Nicholson has often lectured to professional groups on the history, art, and architecture of Rome. Recently he has participated in a European summer program for which he taught a course on the theoretical background of Medieval and Renaissance art.

Father Bernard J. O'Connor (a native of Nova Scotia) has served as an official of the Vatican's Congregation for Eastern Churches since 2004.  Prior to this, he was Assistant Dean at Eastern Michigan University where he taught courses including law, conflict management and diplomacy.  He holds a doctorate in Theology from the Gregorian University, a J.D. from the University of Tennessee and Graduate Degrees in Canon Law and in Spirituality.  Fr. O'Connor publishes and lectures extensively. 

Euridice Orlandino received her Laurea and a Master's degree in traduzione tecnica, scientifica, economica ed editoriale from the Ecole Superieure d'Interpres et Traducteurs of the University of Paris - Sorbonne. She has been teaching Italian at the DILIT International House in Rome since 2003 and, prior to that, at the Immigration Office for the City of Rome. Professoressa Orlandino is fluent in French, English, and German as well as her native Italian.

Maria Palladino earned her Laurea in English Literature from the University of Naples. After passing the Italian State Qualification in English, she taught for many years in Italian schools. She specialized in methodologies of language teaching and educational psychology. From 1983 to 1998 she was an inspector of secondary schools in Italy for the Ministry of Education. This work involved extensive travel throughout Italy to evaluate teachers of language, as well as the implementation of programs and the improvement of teaching skills. Because of this activity, she worked with the support of the language officer from the American Embassy in Rome in organizing in-service teacher’s training for Italian teachers. For the past several years, she has been teaching many generations of American students at the Loyola University, John Felice Rome Center.

 Philipp Gabriel Renczes, S.J., is an assistant professor in systematic theology at the Gregorian University and an invited professor in historical theology at the Pontifical Institute Augustinianum. He earned his baccalaureate in theology from the Gregorian, his licentiate in theology and patristic science from the Augustianum, and his doctoral degree in theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris. Father Renczes has also earned a baccalaureate in philosophy from the Hochschule fur Philosophie in Munich and both a diplome d'Etudes Approfondies and a Ph.D. in the history of religions and religious anthropology from the University of Paris, Sorbonne. He is fluent in German, English, French, Italian, Ivrit, and Spanish. Fr. Renczes was Werhan lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2004 and held the Wade Chair at Marquette University in 2007-08. Among his publications are : Agir de Dieu et liberte l'homme. Recherches sur l anthropologie theogique de Saint Maxime le Confesseur (Paris 2003), and Jesús, el Ungido, ¿centro de la creación? (Madrid 2007).

Sharon Salvadori

Peter M. Sanchez earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in political science, specializing in comparative politics with a focus on Latin America. His teaching and research interests include comparative politics, international relations, Latin American politics, and democratization. Dr. Sanchez has conducted field research in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, and Peru. He is the author of Panama Lost? U.S. Hegemony, Democracy, and the Canal (University Press of Florida, 2007), selected by Choice magazine as an outstanding academic book. Other scholarly publications include articles in International Politics, Annals of Tourism Research, The Latin Americanist, PS: Political Science & Politics, Journal of Developing Areas, Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, International Journal on World Peace, Journal of the Third World Spectrum, The Journal of Conflict Studies, The Air Force Law Review, The Americas, and Peace Review, as well as numerous chapters in edited volumes. Professor Sanchez was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Panama in the 1997-1998 academic year.  He is currently writing a book on the life of a former Salvadoran priest who joined the popular movement in the 1970s and after the civil war was elected twice to the national assembly. Professor Sanchez has been teaching at Loyola since 1993 but has also taught at the U.S. Air Force Academy and Virginia Tech.

James R. Schwarten earned his Ph.D. in Italian Literature and Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and has taught courses ranging from Italian language and literature to sociology. He has also taught English as a Foreign Language in and near Rome. His translation of Silvia Mantini's "Women's History in Italy: Cultural Itineraries and New Proposals in Current Historiographical Trends" appeared in the Journal of Women's History. He is the co-author of a book (forthcoming), Globalizzazione, linguaggio e territorio: Il caso della Marsica, and is currently engaged in sociolinguistic field research in the Abruzzo region of Italy.

Giovanni Scichilone, D.Litt., was graduated summa cum laude from the University of Palermo, where he wrote a thesis on problems of archaic Greek architecture in Sicilian colonies. He later received a Fulbright Grant to the American Academy in Rome, a fellowship to the Italian Archeological School in Athens, and after nation-wide competition he received a post at the Villa Giulia, one of Rome's foremost museums. After holding the directorships of several national museums and sites in Italy, he now serves as General Inspector for Archaeology in the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage in Rome. He has held travel scholarships in England, Greece, and Egypt and has done excavations in Crete, Central Italy, and Libya. He has lectured widely in Europe and beyond, and published excavation reports, critical essays, and book reviews on subjects related to the classical world in such periodicals as Archeologia, Enciclopedia dell' Arte Antica, Annali della Facolta di Lettere dell' Universita di Perugia, and Archeologia Classica. He has several publications on various topics in both Archaeology and Museum Studies.

Grazia Sotis studied at the University of Rome La Sapienza where she received her doctorate in Anglo-American Literature with a thesis on Nathaniel West. She continued her studies at the University of Connecticut where she received her Ph.D. in comparative literature. She taught in the USA for twelve years at the University of Connecticut, Connecticut College, Wheaton College (MA), and Southern Methodist University. In 1988 she returned to Italy and continued teaching for the University of Maryland; since 1990 she has been teaching at the Loyola University Chicago Rome Center. Dr. Sotis has published a book on the American poet Walt Whitman, and articles and reviews in literary and academic journals in the USA, Italy, and Canada on American, Italian, and German speaking writers (on prose, poetry, and theater). Her recent publications are a comparative stylistic analysis of D'Arrigo's "Horcynus Orca" and Melville's "Moby Dick," the synestetical world of Bonaviri Giuseppe and, for cultural studies, Giuseppe Cassieri. She is presently involved in studies and research on Dante and the visual arts, and folktales as expressions of Italian regions.

Todd Waller, M.Ed. is Associate Director for Student Life at the John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago and a doctoral candidate in international education at the University of London. He is the former Director of the Center for Democratic Studies and Constitutional Development at The Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center. He has taught service learning courses and coordinated international service projects at a number of universities, including the University of Pennsylvania, University of Denver, Regis University, and Fordham University.  He has directed two documentary films in Bosnia Herzegovina.  His most recent publication is Cultural Identity in the Balkans: perspectives on morality, identity and social justice (2007).  

Anne Wingenter earned a Ph.D. in history from Loyola University Chicago, an M.A. in history from Indiana University-Bloomington, and a B.S. in international studies from Spring Hill College. Her dissertation, "Le Veterane del Dolore: Mothers and Widows of the 'Fallen' in Fascist Italy," examines how and why Fascist ideologues constructed the war mother as a central figure in the symbolic universe of the "new Italy." It is both an institutional history of the National Association of Mothers and Widows of the Fallen in War, whose actual bodies were utilized in this construction, and an attempt to interrogate how symbols are historically created and manipulated.

Leila Zammar, graduated from the University of Rome, La Sapienza, in "lingue e letterature straniere moderne" (modern languages and literatures) and graduated from the University of Rome, La Sapienza, in "storia della musica" (music hisotry), she also earned a Master in "Lifelong Learning" from the University of Rome, Roma Tre.  She passed the Italian State Qualification in English and teaches English in Italian high schools.  She has studied music theory, history of music, and basic elements of composition, and piano at the Conservatorio di Musica and has been a member of the Chorus Franco Maria Saraceni participating in several concerts in Italy and abroad.  She is author of a book (forthcoming) about the Opera Carmen by Bizet.  She is also a poet: some of her poems have been published in collections of poems and she was invited to introduce the works of some contemporary poets at Cervara di Roma, one of the most important poetic centres in Italy in December 2007.  She has taught courses in Italian language, history of music, opera, and on the city of Rome for other universities and institutions.  She has been teaching at Loyola since 1995.