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Elisabetta Cunsolo is adjunct professor of art history at Spring Hill College Italy Center, and at Dickinson College Center, in Bologna. The course she will teach at ECCo will be an itinerary of learning and research inside churches, palaces and museums to study the history of art of Bologna from the 14th to the 16th century. Dr. Cunsolo received her doctorate in art history from the University of Bologna in 2004, specializing in the study of book illustration of the 16th and 17th centuries. Her current research, published in different articles, focuses on engravings made for some medical treatises printed in Italy in the second half of the 16th century and aims to reconstruct the history of these books through the study of the connections that existed between physicians, engravers, and editors. Elisabetta Cunsolo developed also a deep interest and gained a professional experience with photography and photographic reproductions of works of art working as the assistant curator and project manager for the cataloging and digitization projects of the Berenson Fototeca at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for … Continue reading

Elisabetta Cunsolo is adjunct professor of art history at Spring Hill College Italy Center, and at Dickinson College Center, in Bologna. The course she will teach at ECCo will be an itinerary of learning and research inside churches, palaces and museums to study the history of art of Bologna from the 14th to the 16th century. Dr. Cunsolo received her doctorate in art history from the University of Bologna in 2004, specializing in the study of book illustration of the 16th and 17th centuries. Her current research, published in different articles, focuses on engravings made for some medical treatises printed in Italy in the second half of the 16th century and aims to reconstruct the history of these books through the study of the connections that existed between physicians, engravers, and editors. Elisabetta Cunsolo developed also a deep interest and gained a professional experience with photography and photographic reproductions of works of art working as the assistant curator and project manager for the cataloging and digitization projects of the Berenson Fototeca at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for … Continue reading

Gabriele Cosentino holds a Laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione from the University of Bologna (2001) and a Ph.D. in Media Culture and Communication from New York University (2011). His dissertation focused on the circulation of political communication across entertainment genres on Italian television. He has published several articles in edited collections on digital media, political communications and cultural globalization, 
and has taught at New York University campuses in New York and Florence, and at John Cabot University in Rome.… Continue reading

Vanessa Pietrantonio teaches literature courses at E.C.Co. She received her doctorate in Comparative Literature in the United States and subsequently won various grants, such as a research grant and a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Bologna. She has delivered a series of lectures at the IULM University in Milan on rewriting, parody, pastiche, the modern European novel and on representations of time in Don DeLillo’s Underworld. Prof. Pietrantonio has also been a visiting professor of literature at Vassar College, and has taught courses on the history of literary criticism at the University of Bologna, where she currently collaborates with Prof. Ferdinando Amigoni. Among her publications are Debenedetti e il suo doppio. Una traversata con Marcel Proust (Mulino, 2003) and Archetipi del Sottosuolo (FrancoAngeli, 2011), as well as co-edited volumes Nel paese dei sogni (Le Monnier, 2003) and Crocevia dei sogni. Dalla Nouvelle Revue de Psychanalyse (Le Monnier, 2004).… Continue reading

Ivan Tassi teaches Italian languge and writing courses at E.C.Co. He received his doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Bologna and has taught at the Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona. His research has focused on the techniques of autobiographical writing in Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as on Italian nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative. Prof. Tassi has authored books on the history and theory of autobiography as a literary genre (Storie dell’io) and on the autobiographical techniques of Goldoni, Alfieri and Leopardi (Gli specchi del possibile). He has published a volume of the three editions of Silvio D’Arzo’s short story Casa d’altri, the entry for “Biography” in the Encyclopaedia Treccani, and a survey of Italian nineteenth-century literary criticism for l’Almanacco Rizzoli. Ivan Tassi has also translated Breece Pancake’s short stories into Italian (Trilobiti). He is a contributor to the daily newspaper il manifesto’s culture column and to the weekly supplement Alias with his articles on literary criticism.… Continue reading