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Evan Blazowski

My name is Evan Blazowski, and I'm from Tampa, Florida!  I'm in my first year of the M.A French program after receiving my B.A in French Studies from UGA in May '25. During my undergrad at UGA, I studied French history and culture, with a particular interest in French as a medium for cultural and socio-economic exchange. I completed a senior thesis that examined and analyzed Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc's principles of French Gothic…


Giampaolo Molisina

Giampaolo Molisina earned his Ph.D. in Italian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining UGA, he taught Italian language, literature, and cinema at Hamilton College, UW-Madison, and the Universidad del Pacífico. His research focuses on post-war Italian cinema and literature, with a particular emphasis on the role of poetry in cinematic expression. His interests also include language pedagogy, comparative literature, visual…


Massimiliano Lorenzon

Massimiliano Lorenzon holds a Ph.D. in Italian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on sixteenth-century Italian culture, with particular interest in pedagogy, history, historical linguistics, and philology. His doctoral dissertation explores how the Italian vernacular was taught and learned across Western Europe during the sixteenth century. He is co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Bibliotheca Dantesca and has…


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Italian Masculinity and Migration Research Focus of New Faculty Member

A warm welcome to Dr. Lisa Dolasinski! The Department of Romance Languages is happy to have you with us. This profile is part of a series featuring faculty members new to UGA campus in Fall 2022: Lisa Dolasinski joins the Department of Romance Languages at UGA as Lecturer of Italian after previously holding appointments at SUNY New Paltz, Bucknell University, Dickinson College, and Indiana University. Dr. Dolasinski's teaching and…
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Faculty Member in Italian Views Language Study as Performance

A warm welcome to Dr. Samantha Gillen! The Department of Romance Languages is happy to have you with us. This profile is the first of a series featuring faculty members new to UGA campus in Fall 2022: Hi, I’m Samantha / Sam! I am thrilled to join the department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia. I spent the last six years in Philadelphia obtaining my PhD in Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. I defended…
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Samantha Gillen

Samantha received her Ph.D. in Italian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022. Her research explores industrialized spaces of the 1950s and 1960s in the works of Italo Calvino, Luciano Bianciardi, Paolo Volponi, and Michelangelo Antonioni.  She has taught Italian language from beginning to advanced, and was a 2025 recipient of a Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching award. Her pedagogical interests include differentiated…


Lisa Dolasinski

Lisa holds a PhD in Italian and a minor in Gender Studies from Indiana University and an M.A. in Italian Studies and a film certificate from the University of Pittsburgh. Lisa’s teaching and research interests center on contemporary Italian media and culture. Lisa has received multiple awards and honors for her teaching, including Most Innovative Approach to Teaching Culture in a Foreign Language Classroom and a grant for the…


Concettina Pizzuti

Dr. Pizzuti has been working at the University of Georgia since 2001, after teaching at other universities in the United States. She teaches language and culture courses from beginning to advanced and coordinates a thriving Italian language program at the beginning and intermediate level. She has graduate degrees in Italian from Harvard (Ph.D) and the University of Pittsburgh (M.A.), and a Laurea in Modern Foreign…
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