Italian Studies

At Brown, Maria Sepa wrote a dissertation on “Ennio Flaiano scrittore per il cinema," co-directed by Anthony Oldcorn and Franco Fido. She went on to teach Italian literature at University of Virginia, Wellesley College, Brown University in Bologna, and is currently teaching at IES Milan, and Università Cattolica, Milan. She is also translating from English into Italian for the cultural pages of Il Corriere della Sera. She is engaged in promoting a dialogue between American and Italian studies, through her blog. She is the author of Milano downtown, a novel (Manni, 2013).