A native of Rome, Italy, Dr. Taccheri is a specialist in Medieval
and Renaissance literature; his other interests include Cinema
Studies and Italian Cultural Studies, and the application of information
technology in education.
Dr.
Taccheri joined the department of Modern Languages in 2001, after
having taught Italian in Academic Institutions for almost a decade.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania with
a dissertation on Dante Alighieri, and published articles on Ludovico
Ariosto, Luchino Visconti and Thomas Mann, and Dante. Two of his
articles on the cinema of Roberto Benigni are in press, and will
appear in collections of scholarly essays on the director of Life
is Beautiful.
Since at Saint Mary’s, together with Introductory and Intermediate
language, Dr. Taccheri has taught upper division courses on Italian
Culture and Civilization, Advanced Conversation, the Short Story
Tradition and Introduction to Italian Literature I and II.
In the Spring 2004 Dr. Taccheri received a Teaching Grant from
Saint Mary’s College for the creation of a new course, Italian
Cultural Studies, that he will teach for the first time in the
Spring 2005.
