Program Director - Michelangelo La Luna, Ph.D., Harvard University. Associate Professor of Italian, University of Rhode Island. Winner of the 1998 Travel Study Prize for Excellence in Teaching at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. Prof. La Luna is also a painter and the the author of the following books:        

§    De Rada, Girolamo: Opera Omnia, Autobiografia. Ed. Michelangelo La Luna. Vol. VIII. Rende: Università della Calabria; Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino Editore, 2008.

§    De Rada, Girolamo: Opera Omnia, Epistolario con N. Tommaseo. La corrispondenza inedita tra Girolamo De Rada e Niccolò Tommaseo (1860-1874). Ed. Michelangelo La Luna. Vol. XII, 1. Rende: Università della Calabria; Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino Editore, 2006.

§ Invito alla lettura di Girolamo De Rada. Castrovillari: Grafica del Pollino, 2004.

§    Vjeshe Arbresh, Canti Italo-Albanesi. Rossano: Studio Zeta, 1999.

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  Faculty - Our faculty is comprised of highly qualified professionals with backgrounds and expertise in various fields.
• Marco Arnaudo, Assistant Professor of Italian, Indiana University
• Bruna Boyle, Retired Teacher of Italian at Narragansett High School; currently Teaching Assistant at University of Rhode Island.
• Maria Credidio, Artist
• Dante Della Terza, Professor Emeritus of Italian Literature and Former Chairman of the Romance Languages Department, Harvard University 
• Pasquale De Marco, Art Critic and Journalist
• Al-Walid I. El-Bermani, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Anatomy, Tufts Medical School, Tufts University
• Chandra Harris, Ph.D. in Italian, Brown University
• Alessandro Ghisalberti, Director of Philosophy Department, Cattolica University of Milano
• Ken Kaplan, Ph.D. Architect and Former Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and Harvard University
• Jenny Latimer, Teaching Assistant at University of Rhode Island
• Maria Mansella, Professor of Italian at the Community College of Rhode Island
• Robert Manteiga, Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature and Fim Media, University of Rhode Island
• Gianni Mazzei, Poet, Writer and Literary Critic
• Adriano Mazziotti, Professor of English and Journalist 
• Daniela Melo, Teaching Assistant University of Connecticut
• Giovanni Morello, Worldwide Director of Exhibitions for the Vatican, Musei Vaticani
• Fulvio Orsitto, Assistant Professor of Italian, California State University - Chico
• Cesare Pitto, Professor of Anthropology, University of Calabria
• Candice Simmons, Instructor of English at the College of Johnson and Wales.
• Francesco Sisci, Italian Journalist (China)
• Walter Valeri, assistant of Dario Fo for more than fifteen years, teaching assistant of Italian at Harvard University for six years and currently teaching assistant at University of Rhode Island and at Boston Conservatory.
• Various Italian Poets, Writers and Journalists

Emeritus Professor Dante Della Terza, Harvard University