Italian Studies

A Fulbright fellow, Cristina Pausini graduated from Brown with a dissertation on Sicilian writer Maria Messina, written under the direction of M. Riva and entitled: Le "briciole" della letteratura: i racconti e i romanzi di Maria Messina (The "Crumbs" of Literature: Maria Messina's Short-Stories and Novels) published in Italy by Clueb, Bologna, in 2001. Her interests include Modern and contemporary Italian literature, women's studies, and the pedagogy of Italian as a foreign language through cinema, modern media, and instructional technology.