Associate Professor of Italian
Chicago Hall 124
(845) 437-5613
Contact Roberta Antognini
Roberta Antognini has a Laurea in History of Italian Language from the Università Cattolica di Milano (Italy). She joined the faculty after receiving her PhD in Italian from New York University in 1997. Prior to her arrival at Vassar, she was an adjunct Professor at Columbia University and Fordham University. Her main research and teaching interests lie in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Literature, History of Italian Language, Autobiography and Translation. She is the author of a monograph on Petrarch’s collection of letters, the Familiares: Il progetto autobiografico delle Familiari di Petrarca (Milano: LED, 2008). She is currently co-editing an anthology of essays on Giorgio Bassani.