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Alessio Filippi
Lecturer

Contact Information
Office: WPH 155J
Phone: (213)740-3700
E-mail: afilippi@usc.edu

 

Education

M.A. Italian Literature/language, UCLA, 6/1998
Ph.D. Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature, University of California - Los Angeles, 12/2006
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Lecturer, University of Southern California,  
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Ph.D. Department of Italian, UCLA. Dissertation filed in the fall of 2006. Degree to be awarded in 2007. Dissertation Topic: Food, body, sins in the Church in medieval Italy; Christianity, medieval philosophy; Italian medieval "novelle" (from Boccaccio to mid XV century; female saints in XIII-XIV centuries Tuscany. Other interests: WWI Italian literature; Renaissance cookery; XIX-XX Centuries Italian history, politics and numismatics. Taught language at UCLA (Teaching assistant, 1996-2000); Pepperdine University (2000-2001); USC (French-Italian Department, 2001-present); Istituto Italiano di cultura (1997-2004).
 
 
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