Adriana De Marchi Gherini

I've been teaching at UCSD since 1990.

Fields of Interest:

• Italian Languagae and Culture,
• Italian Medieval Literature (Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca),
• Italian Renaissance (Ariosto, Machiavelli, Tasso),
• Italian Children's Literature,
• Drama (Classics, Shakespeare, Pirandello),
• Alessandro Manzoni,
• World Crime Fiction,
• Food and Literature,
• Contemporary World Literature,
• Urban Studies and Literature,
• Manga/Anime/Video games as narratives,
• and more...

Pronouns: she/her

Languages: Arabic, English, Italian

• Ph. D. in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
• M. A. in Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
• B. A. in Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
• Liceo classico Parini, Milano, Italy