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Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Skidmore College
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Barbara Garbin
Foreign Languages and Literatures,
Visiting Assistant Professor of
Italian Language and Literature

Office:Palamountain 425
Phone:(518) 580-5225
Email: bgarbin@skidmore.edu


EDUCATION
  • Ph.D, Yale University, New Haven
  • M.A., Yale University, New Haven
  • Laurea cum Laude, Italian Literature, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Modern Italian Literature, Italian Fantastic Literature, Italian Women Writers, Futurism, Multiculturalism in Italian Literature and Cinema, Literary and Cinematic Representation of Parenthood

COURSES
  • FI 101 Elementary Italian
  • FI 203 Intermediate Italian through Film
  • FI 208 Italian Conversation and Composition: Contemporary Italy from Fascism to today
  • FI 310 Il Rinascimento italiano
  • FI 363 Special Studies in Italian: True Blood – Ghost, Monsters and Vampires in Italian Literature
  • GW 212 Women in Italian Society