Meet the Faculty

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Theodore J. Cachey is a Professor of Italian and the Albert J. and Helen M. Ravarino Family Director of Dante and Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame and Co-Director of the Center for Italian Studies. He specializes in Italian Medieval and Renaissance literature, in particular Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, the history of the Italian language, and the literature and history of travel.


David Lummus is Co-director of the Center for Italian Studies and Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian.


    

    

Chiara Sbordoni is Adjunct Professor of Italian at the Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway.


    

    

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Speaker:
Theodore J. Cachey Jr.