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Luca Zipoli presents "Italian Through Culture II" and “Theory in Practice"

Presentation of the courses "Intermediate Italian - Italian Through Culture II" (ITAL B102) and “Theory in Practice: Critical Discourses in the Humanities” (COML B213) by Luca Zipoli (Bryn Mawr College). These courses will be taught in Spring 2026 and offered by the Department of Transnational Italian Studies at Bryn Mawr College. 00:00-00:20 Introduction 00:20-01:19 ITAL B102 "Italian through Culture II" (Tuesday and Thursday, 10:10-11:30 am) 01:19-03:25 COML B213 "Theory in Practice: Critical Discourses in the Humanities" (Tuesday and Thursday, 2:40-4:00 p.m.) 03:25-03:54 Conclusion Abstract ITAL B102: This course is the second half of a two-semester sequence designed to help students attain a level of proficiency to communicate effectively and accurately in Italian. This course builds on the students' existing skills in Italian, increases their confidence and their ability to read, write, speak, and understand the language, and introduces them to more refined lexical terms, more complex grammatical structures, and more challenging cultural materials. While the principal aim of the course is to further develop language abilities, the course also imparts a foundation for the understanding of modern and contemporary Italy. Practice is given in all four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), and students will conduct a collaborative reading of an Italian novel in order to analyze aspects of the Italian culture. By the end of this second semester, students will have reached full command of all the most advanced and sophisticated structures of the language, will have gained an appreciation for Italian culture, and will be able to communicate orally and in writing about a wide variety of topics. Prerequisite: ITAL B101 or placement. Abstract COML B213: What is a postcolonial subject, a queer gaze, a feminist manifesto? And how can we use (as readers of texts, art, and films) contemporary studies on animals and cyborgs, object-oriented ontology, zombies, storyworlds, neuroaesthetics? By bringing together the study of major theoretical currents of the 20th century and the practice of analyzing literary works in the light of theory, this course aims at providing students with skills to use literary theory in their own scholarship. The selection of theoretical readings reflects the history of theory (psychoanalysis, structuralism, narratology), as well as the currents most relevant to the contemporary academic field: Post-structuralism, Post-colonialism, Gender Studies, and Ecocriticism. They are paired with a diverse range of short stories across multiple language traditions (Poe, Kafka, Camus, Borges, Calvino, Morrison, Djebar, Murakami, Ngozi Adichie) that we discuss along with our study of theoretical texts. We will discuss how to apply theory to the practice of interpretation and of academic writing, and how theoretical ideas shape what we are reading. The class will be conducted in English, with an additional hour taught by the instructor of record in the target language for students wishing to take the course for language credit. More info: https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside/acade...