People - Faculty - Sbragia
Albert Sbragia
Assoc. Prof. of Italian and Comparative Literature
Areas of Study: modern and contemporary Italian literature and cinema, Italian fascism, Rome
Education: Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, 1988
Albert Sbragia arrived at the University of Washington in 1989. He is the director of the Cinema Studies program in the Department of Comparative Literature and a faculty member of the European Studies program. His publications include a book, Carlo Emilio Gadda and the Modern Macaronic (University Press of Florida, 1996), and publications on 19th Century and 20th Century Italian literature and culture. His current research project is entitled "Modernity in Rome" and deals with urbanistic, literary, and visual constructions of the Italian capital from 1870 to the present. He is also the Chair of French and Italian Studies.
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