Caterina Mongiat Farina (laurea Università di Padova, PhD Harvard University) is Associate Professor and Director of the Italian Program at DePaul University. Her research interests include early modern Italian literature, history of Italian language, the Italian coming-of-age novel, and translation.
She is the author of
Questione di lingua. L’ideologia del dibattito sull’italiano nel Cinquecento (Longo editore, 2014) and co-translator with Geoff Farina of Umberto Eco’s classic manual
How to Write a Thesis (MIT Press, 2015). Her articles appeared in journals such as
Rinascimento,
Forum Italicum,
Italica, and
Strumenti critici.
Dr. Mongiat Farina has taught ITA 397 Italo Calvino: A Translation Workshop (Spring 2014).