Silvia Tiboni-Craft

Silvia Tiboni-Craft is an Associate Teaching Professor of Italian at Wake Forest University since 2012. She obtained both a B.A. and M.A. in Italian Literature from the Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo with a special focus on 19^th and 20^th century. In 2006, she moved to the United States through an exchange program between her Italian university and the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where she collaborated with the Italian Department. After a year, she started her Ph.D. in Italian at Rutgers University and completed it in 2015 with her dissertation on Italian women writers titled Fantasy of the Domestic Space. 

Since at Wake Forest, Silvia has taught a variety of courses in Italian Language, Culture and Literature. Additionally, she has led several research projects with students at the undergraduate level. She has also successfully created numerous extra-curricular activities to create a sense of community on campus and in Winston-Salem.

Silvia’s interests include 19^th and 20^th century Italian women writers, 20^th century Italian poetry, domestic space, feminist theory and pedagogy. Silvia recently published a book chapter titled “The stolen identities in Maria Messina’s novel A House in the Shadow” in Representation of Female identity in Italy. Recently, Silvia is working on a book project that explores how female writers portray in their novels and short stories the domestic space in which women were segregated. Additionally, Silvia works on a pedagogical project on the use of 3D videos and virtual reality to facilitate students’ learning of Italian. 

• ITA111 and ITA112 Elementary Italian
• ITA113 Intensive Elementary Italian
• ITA 153 Intensive Elementary Italian
• ITA212 Exploring the Italian World
• ITA213 Introduction to Italian Literature
• ITA 320 Advance Conversation and Composition
• ITA381 Independent Study on Italian Women Writers

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