Phone: 773-325-1880
Office: McGaw 303
Email: COrban@depaul.edu
Education: Ph.D, University of Chicago
Dr. Orban's publications range from seventeenth-century linguistics to the pedagogy of upper-division Italian conversation courses. Her books include: Au travail!, a workbook for Business French; a translation of Herve Guibert’s Cytomegalovirus; The Culture of Fragments: Words and Images in Futurism and Surrealism; Surrealist Case Studies: Literature, Medicine and the Arts; the novel Terra Firma, second place winner of the 2003 CNW/FFWA award for fiction, and Body [in] Parts: Bodies and Identity in Sade and Guibert. Her wine appreciation book Wine Lessons: Ten Questions to Guide Your Appreciation of Wine, will be published December 2011. Her articles have appeared in journals such as The French Review, Italica, and Literature and Medicine.
She is on the advisory and editorial board of the online Hektoen International: a Journal of Medical Humanities, and is chair of the board of IMPACT Chicago, an organization that teaches self-defense to women and girls so they can prevent, minimize, and stop violence.
Student interest led her to inherit Geography 350: the World of Wine. In 2007, she became a certified sommelier and leads regular wine tasting events as fundraisers.