Faculty/Staff
Barbara Godorecci
Associate Professor of Italian, Ph.D., New York University (1989).
Her specialties include Medieval and Renaissance literature, Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Machiavelli. She has published on a variety of topics. In 1993 she published After Machaivelli:”Re-Writing “and the “Hermeneutic Attitude” with Purdue University Press. Recently she contributed to Vickie B. Sullivan’s book, The Comedy and Tragedy of Machiavelli. Essays on the Literary Works, Yale University Press, 2000, with the essay “Beyond Limits: Time, Space, Language in Machiavelli’s Decennali.” She regularly teaches undergraduate language courses from elementary Italian to advanced composition and conversation, and graduate courses in Romance Languages and English on such topics as Petrarch and Petrarchism, Boccaccio and the Novella, and Machiavelli.
Email: bgodorec@ml.as.ua.edu
Maurizio Godorecci
Associate Professor of Italian, Ph.D., New York University, 1990.
His specialties include Medieval literature, Dante, Vico, modern and contemporary poetry, and critical theory. He has written articles and presented on a variety of topics, on Dante, Vico, Gentile, Ungaretti, Montale, De Luca. His books are Saggi su Dante e Petrarca (2001), Tra Ottocento e Novecento. Ombre e Corpi di Fedele Romani (1993), The Empty Set. Five Essays On 20-Th Century Italian Poetry (1985). He has also published Poena (1999), a book of poetry, and a collection of poems in Poesaggio. Poeti italiani d’America (1993). He regularly teaches courses from elementary Italian to advanced grammar and composition, together with courses on masterpieces of Italian literature, and film, and graduate courses in Romance Languages, World Literature, and English on such topics as critical theory, Women in the Renaissance, Vico, and Dante.
Email: mgodorec@ml.as.ua.edu
Gabriella Marconi Merriman
Instructor in Italian, M.A. in French and Italian, The University of Alabama, 1996.
Gabriella Merriman regularly teaches language courses. Born in Venice, Italy, Ms. Merriman brings native fluency in Italian and authentic cultural knowledge to her classes. She is also the advisor to the Italian Club.
Email: gmerriman@bama.ua.edu
Michael Picone
Professor of French and Linguistics, Docteur ès lettres, Université de Paris’Sorbonne.
Dr. Picone came to the University of Alabama in 1988 and has held the rank of professor since 1999. His specialties include linguistics, phonology, lexicology, dialectology, language in contact, North American varieties of French, translation, commercial French, Francophone Louisiana, and Francophone Africa. In 1996, he published Anglicism, Neologisms and Dynamic French. He has published a variety of articles on Francophone Louisiana and language contact phenomena. He regularly teaches IT 361, Introduction to Romance Linguistics also listed as FR 361, and SP 361.
Email: mpicone@bama.ua.edu