The Claire T. Carney Library Associates announces its special program, Italian Lifelines, featuring Rose Facchini, lecturer of Italian at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on Sunday, May 21st, 2017 in the Grand Reading Room of the Claire T. Carney Library on the UMass Dartmouth campus at 1 PM.
The program is free and open to all.
Rose Facchini holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, philosophy and religious studies and a Master of Arts degree in International relations. She is currently studying Italian literature at the Middlebury Language schools for her second Master’s degree. Rose continues to expand the Italian studies program at UMass Dartmouth through the creation of three new Italian courses. Ms. Facchini will be speaking about Italian fashion through the ages and will highlight the importance of identity in Italian literature regarding its connection to the seemingly ephemeral and constantly evolving phenomenon of fashion.
This program is dedicated to Chancellor Professor Emeritus of Italian, Latin and Spanish, Giulio Massano, who passed away in April 2014. Prof. Massano was born in Sant’ Albano Stura located in the northern Piemonte region of Italy. After completing his undergraduate degree in Torino, Italy, he moved to Bogotá, Colombia where he developed a love of early Spanish literature. He received a PhD in Spanish and Italian literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque periods from Catholic University of America in 1973. In 1974, he became a faculty member at the then Southeastern Massachusetts University teaching Spanish and Latin. During his first year, he petitioned successfully to add Italian to the curriculum. During his 39-year career at UMass Dartmouth, Prof. Massano also served as Chairperson of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature for 11 years
Prior to the lecture, the Claire T. Carney Library Associates will be holding a short business meeting which will include the election of officers. The CTC Library Associates will also present a check from the Library Associates to the dean of the library, Terrence Burton.
After the program, a light reception featuring Italian food and desserts will be served.
Parking is available on campus in lot 13. For further information, please contact either Rita Raymond at 508-995-3528 or Maria Sanguinetti at 508-991-5096.
Grew up in Western Massachusetts, has worked as a radio broadcaster, an actress and journalist. She has taught writing on Cape Cod, France, Ireland and Jamaica, and to women in prison. Land’s End (1985) Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence (2009) The Law of Bound Hearts (2004) and The Lavender Hour (2007.)
Lives in Boston, where he is a contributing editor to Fulcrum: An Annual of Poetry andAesthetics. His poetry collections include The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics (2008), Johanna Poems (2007), and White Cities (1995).
Sondra Perl is Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the recipient of both a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Carnegie Foundation’s Professor of the Year award. On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate (2005) Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction (2006) Through Teachers’ Eyes: Portraits of Writing Teachers at Work (1986).
Widely known as a highly prized Channel 7 NEWS reporter, “Hank Investigates” she is also a best-selling mystery author, featuring a fictional Boston TV journalist who solves crimes in the Charlotte McNally Mystery Series. Investigative reporter Charlotte McNally is an expert at keeping things confident.