Italian Faculty

	Gabriella Brooke Visit My Website Professor Department of Modern Languages E. 502 Boone Ave. AD Box 46 Spokane, WA 99258-0046 Phone: 313-6655 Office Location CG 338 Office Hours Monday, Wednesday 1:00 - 2:00 Tuesday 10:00 - 12:00 & by appointment Professor Brooke holds a degree as translator from the University of Trieste, Italy,1967, M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Gonzaga University,1982, M.A. in Romance Languages from the University of Washington,1988, and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University, 1991. Her main areas of interest are Italian Women Writers, the Italian Historical Novel, and Literary translation. Professor Brooke is the author of The Words of Bernfrieda, a historical novel set in Southern Italy at the time of the Norman conquest, EWU Press, 1999. She is co-editor, with Dr. Maria Marotti of a collection of essays on the historical novel written by women Gendering Italian Fiction: Feminist Revisions of Italian History, Associated University Presses,1999. Professor Brooke translated The Words of Bernfrieda into Italian, for Italian publisher Sellerio, with the title Le parole di Bernfrieda, Palermo, 2001.

	Stefania Nedderman Visit My Website Associate Professor, Director Italian Program Department of Modern Languages 502 E. Boone Ave. AD Box 46 Spokane, WA 99258-0046 Phone: 313-3603 Office Location CG 342 Office Hours Monday, Wednesday 11:00-12:00; 1:00-2:00 & by appointment Born in Sossano (Vi), Italy, Professor Nedderman transferred to the U.S. in 1978. She received her Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Oregon in 1993. Before joining the Modern Languages Department at GU in 1995, she was the supervisor for all first year Spanish courses at the University of Oregon. She also taught for one year at the University of South Dakota. Her areas of interest are Spanish and Italian Renaissance and Baroque Literature. She has delivered several papers on the subject. Her research interest extends to Modern Italian writers. Her article "Trascolorare. Metamorphoses in Rosetta Loy's Le Strade di polvere" appears in Gendering Italian Fiction: Feminist Revisions of Italian History. Her current research focuses on Early Modern Spanish mystics. She has directed both the Cuernavaca and Granada programs and is serving on the Women's Studies Advisory Board.

	Torunn Haaland Assistant Professor Department of Modern Languages E. 502 Boone Ave. AD Box 45 Spokane, WA 99258-0046 Phone: 313-3898 Office Location CG 340 Office Hours Wednesday 3:00-4:00 in CG 340 Tuesday 5:00 to 7:00 Coughlin Hall & by appointment Professor Haaland holds undergraduate degrees in Italian and Social Anthropology from the University of Oslo, and a BA in Media Studies from the University of Wales, Cardiff. She completed an MA and PhD in Modern Italian Studies at the University of Indiana. Her publications include articles on Italian cinema and culture as well as a book titled Italian Neorealist Cinema. Edinburgh University Press, 2012. http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748636112