Maria Anna Mariani, Assistant Professor of Modern Italian Literature, has just published a book titled Voci da Uber. Confessioni a motore, the result of dozens of interviews she conducted among Chicago's Uber drivers.
On December 10, the Italian Consul General in Chicago, dott. Giuseppe Finocchiaro, presented Prof. Robert Kendrick with the Italian Republic’s Order of Merit. This honor recognizes his contributions to the study of Italian music.
Four undergraduates in Italian (Luna Splendori, Alicia Haydon, Madeline Gedvila, and Kavitya Sarma) won first prize at the Duello ai Fornelli, the Scuola Italiana Enrico Fermi’s annual cooking competition. Faced with stiff competition from DePaul, Northwestern, Loyola, and UIC, UChicago’s creamy risotto al prosecco took first place in the junior category.
Congratulations to Professor Miguel Caballero Vazquez for his role in curating an exhibit by artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo that just opened in IVAM, Valencia, Spain!
Ana Lima, Director of the Portuguese Language Program, and her institutional partners from Michigan State University (MSU) and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign received a two-year grant from the Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Partnership, funded by the Mellon Foundation and housed at MSU.
