Christine Ristaino, Lecturer & First-Year Language Coordinator & Teacher Training, Italian Studies Program (Ph.D. in Italian Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004): Italian cultural studies; cultural acquisition; language pedagogy; the marvelous Baroque; the 'Querelle des Femmes'; and Italian women writers.
Co-author of Lucrezia Marinella and the 'Querelle des Femmes' in Seventeenth Century Italy (Farleigh Dickinson Press, 2008). Co-author of Italian Virtual Class, Chiavi di Lettura, Volumes 1, 2, 3 (Emory University Office of Technology Transfer, 2007, 2008, 2008) [Academic Exchangearticle]. Co-author of a book chapter in Teaching Italian and Italian Culture (Cambridge Scholarly Press, forthcoming). Author of a number of entries, book reviews, and articles in Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, Annali d’italianistica, and the Academic Exchange.