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Luigia Gina Maiellaro, Lecturer, Italian

Luigia Maiellaro was born in Salerno, Italy. In 1995 she graduated from the University of Salerno, specializing in comparative literatures (18th century Russian, French and English theaters). Focusing on comparative philo, in 1998 she received a PhD from the Russian State University of the Humanities (Moscow), writing her dissertation on the influence of Italian on Russian in the 18th century.

She taught Italian language and culture at Moscow State University and at the Italian School in Moscow sponsored by the Italian embassy. From 1999 to 2000 she worked as a researcher in Russian at the University of Salerno and taught courses in Russian language and its history. In 2001 she moved to the United States where she joined Northeastern University as a lecturer of Italian language. Maiellaro's primary interests are focused on the history of Russian and Italian languages, the mechanisms of their development, their reciprocal influence in specific historical and literary contexts, and their theorization with special attention given to the problems of innovation and continuity in linguistic evolution of the Russian written language, poetics, and the problems of translation, as well as materials from Russian archives. She is currently working on poetic genres of the first half of the 18th century and the Bible. Her philologic experience has been of great importance in planning her courses in modern languages, and developing special materials in language learning for Italian-American students with a dialect background. Feel free to contact Luigia Maiellaro either via e-mail or through her office at 427 Meserve Hall 617.373.7107.