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Rita Cavigioli
Associate Professor of Italian

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Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles, 1993
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature

A specialist in contemporary Italian literature, Professor Cavigioli’s research interests include age studies, women writers, historical-pedagogical literature, and foreign-language teaching methodology. She has published widely in both Italian and American journals. She is the author of three books: Women of a Certain Age: Contemporary Italian Fictions of Female Aging (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005), La fatica di iniziare il libro: Problemi di autorità nel diario di Sibilla Aleramo (Edizioni dell’Orso, 1995), and By Airmail: Testo di letture e civiltà inglese e americana (Società Editrice Internazionale, 1990).

In addition to teaching and coordinating the Italian language program for the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, she is Director of Education at the university’s Center of Excellence on Aging and holds a joint appointment with the School of Nursing. She is also affiliated with the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

Rita Cavigioli

Contact:
124 Arts & Science Building
573-882-2865
cavigiolir@missouri.edu

book jacket
Women of a Certain Age
(Farleigh Dickinson University Press)

book jacket
La fatica di iniziare il libro
(Edizioni dell’Orso)

By Airmail jacket
By Airmail
(Societa Editrice Internazionale)

Romance Languages & Literatures
143 Arts & Science Bldg.
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211 USA
tel. 573-882-4874
fax. 573-884-8171
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