Stefania Benini, Ph.D.

Italian Degree in Italian Literature, University La Sapienza, Rome 1993

Ph.D. in Italian, Stanford University, 2006

Lauro De Bosis Post-doctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, 2014

LIT 142, Later World Literature

ITA 101, Elementary Italian I

Italian 20th and 21st Centuries Literature; the Sacred in Cinema and Literature; Italian Women Directors; Dante and Boccaccio and Medievalism; Italian Women's Poetry; Women's Cinema and Transnational Cinema; Italian Cinema; Representation of Women in Italian Cinema; Italophone Literature; Landscape in Italian Cinema; Theatre and the Avant-garde; Intertextuality and Theory of Representation in Literature and Film; Culture, Mass Media and Information Technology; Translation.  

Jeffrey Schnapp (Chair), Robert Harrison, Carolyn Springer, Hans Gumbrecht, Stanford University 

•    Assistant Professor of Instruction in Italian, Temple University, Italian Language and Culture, Literature, and Cinema

•    Visiting Assistant Professor, Franklin & Marshall College, Elementary Italian and labor culture in Italy, Italian women filmmakers, Food culture in Italy    Fall 2019 -June 2021

•    Visiting Assistant Professor, Bryn Mawr College, Elementary and Intermediate Italian and Food Culture, Spring 2019

•    Visiting Assistant Professor, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, Italian Language and Culture, Italian American experience   8/ 2017-8/2018

•    Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Italian Modern and Contemporary Literature and Cinema 2007 - 2014

•    Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Italian Modern and Contemporary Literature and Cinema 2006 - 2007

•    Visiting Assistant Professor, University of SUNY at Buffalo, Italian Literature and Language   2005 - 2006

Modern Language Association, American Association of Italian Studies, ACTFL, Society for Cinema and Media Studies,