Lecturers 2006-2007 Italian Lecturers : -Dr. Luisella Bovio Arnold -Carla Borromeo -Tiziana de Simone -Camilla Fiorina -Dr. Valentina Padula French Lecturers: -Dr. Louis Bousquet -Dr. Suzanne Braswell -Dr. Tatiana Kozhanova -Dr. Olivier Tonnerre	Italian lecturers:
	Luisella Bovio Arnold Luisella Bovio Arnold was born and raised in Torino. In 1987, she moved to the United States where she received her Ph. D. from UCLA with a dissertation on Boccaccio's Latin work: "Genealogia Deorum Gentilium". Education: Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1993. Laurea in Lettere University of Turin, Italy, 1970. Teaching Specialties: Italian literature and language classes (all levels); conversation; Italian cinema Primary research interests: Medieval Studies, Boccaccio. Luisella  has 20 years teaching experience in Italy, where she taught Italian Literature, Latin Language and Literature in a Liceo Scientifico (science-oriented high school), and in the United States at UCLA, Scripps and UCSB. She has presented several papers at professional meetings on topics related to her dissertation and on the literature of the 20th century.
	Carla Borromeo Carla was born in La Spezia, Italy. After graduating from Liceo Classico, she attended the University of Florence where she received a degree in architecture, specializing in restoration. Education: Laurea in Architecture, University of Florence, 1992. Teaching: Italian language and conversation classes. Currently Carla is an instructor at UCSB as well as at Santa Barbara City College Continuing Education; she is also a private tutor. Carla also serves as a private consultant for local architects.
	Tiziana de Simone Tiziana was born in Naples (Italy). She has a degree in Chemistry from the University of Naples (1997). From 1995 to 1997 Tiziana worked as Research Scholar in the Materials Department at UCSB. She held varies teaching positions in the Chemistry Department at UCSB from 1997 to 2002. In 2000 she joined the French and Italian Department at UCSB. She now teaches grammar and Italian conversation classes.
	Camilla Fiorina Camilla Fiorina was born and raised in Milan, Italy. After graduating from “Liceo Classico” she attended “Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore” in Milan where she received a degree in Italian Literature, specializing in Medieval and Humanistic Philology. In 1997 she received a Professional Certificate in Journalism from the same university. Education: Laurea in Lettere Moderne, “Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore”, Milan, Italy, 1996 ; Professional Certificate in Journalism, “Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore”, Milan, Italy, 1997; Marketing Certificate and Business Certificate, UCSB Extension, 2003. Teaching Specialties: Italian language and conversation classes. Camilla worked for several years with the Italian book publisher Rizzoli Inc. where she was in charge of the Italian Contemporary Fiction editorial staff. She collaborated with major Italian writers to edit and publish their books. As a journalist she published many articles in Italian newspapers and magazines and she is currently a member of the List of Italian Professional Journalists. At the beginning of 2002 she moved to Santa Barbara where she teaches Italian at UCSB. Since 2003 she has been collaborating with the marketing department of some local company and she has been collaborating as a translator with Italian and American publishers and companies.
	Dr. Valentina Padula Valentina Padula was born and raised in Italy. After obtaining her Laurea from the University of Bologna she spent one academic year at the University of California, San Diego as a EAP student. She continued her graduate studies at the University of Maryland where she studied American, Comparative, and International Politics. Education: Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, 1997. Master Degree University of Maryland, College Park 1995. Laurea in Political Science University of Bologna, Italy 1989 Valentina joined the French and Italian department in 1998. She enjoys teaching her mother tongue as well as teaching on the European Union. She teaches : ITA1-6 Italian language; ITA 8, ITA8B, ITA109 Italian Conversation ; ITA 161AX The European Union. Valentina has traveled extensively and has lived in England and Puerto Rico for long periods of time. Her favorite activities are to travel with her family and expose her daughters to different cultures.
	French lecturers:
	Dr. Louis Bousquet Louis Bousquet earned his DEUG and License and Maitrise in history from the Université de Nice. He received his Master in French Literature from Rutgers University, and his Ph.D. in French at UC Santa Barbara in Summer 2007. His doctoral dissertation explores the philosophical and spiritual aspects of the secularization of the intellect in Western modernity. Through readings of the works of Michel Houellebecq, his research draws the contours of this acute "crise de foi" that plagues modern European culture.
	Dr. Suzanne Braswell A specialist in 19th- and 20th-century French literature, Suzanne Braswell received her Ph.D in French at UC Santa Barbara in 2005, and her M.A. in French Literature from San José State University (1998). She has recently published articles in French Forum and the on-line scholarly review, Dix-Neuf.  She is currently writing articles on modern poetry and editing a book-manuscript. Her research interests include poetry and poetics, the intersection of literature and the arts, philosophical approaches to literature, and comparative literature.
	Dr. Tatiana Khozanova November 2005, Ph.D. in French literature, Moscow State University, supervisor prof. Nathalie Pakhsarian, thesis “The problem of comic in l’Astrée by Honoré d’Urfé." June 2006, Diploma in French literature, French College of Moscow University, supervisor prof. Françoise Mélonio, Paris, Sorbonne IV, thesis “Le roman historique après 1850: Les beaux messieurs de Bois-Doré de George Sand”. After she received her Ph.D., Tatiana Khozanova was appointed as Assistant Professor of French and European literature in Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages and Moscow Cultures History Institute. Her research interests are: Renaissance French and Comparative Literature; the Pastoral novel and drama, and the Baroque French novel,; Enlightenment Studies; the French historical novel of the 19th century. She has published extensively on Honoré d'Urfé's L'Astrée, on Tasso and Guarini.
	Dr. Olivier Tonnerre Olivier Tonnerre earned his License and his Maîtrise at the Université de Rennes (France). He received his Ph.D. in French from UC Santa Barbara in Winter 2007. His dissertation is entitled “Invisible Signs: Representations of the Nobility in Nineteenth-Century French Literature”. By using approaches and concepts borrowed from sociology and cultural history, he investigates the continued domination of the social field by the French nobility, as it appears in the works of authors such as Chateaubriand, Balzac, Tocqueville and Proust to name but a few. Having lost their economic supremacy, the members of this caste still retain an indistinct aura of distinction which makes them not only both admired and despised, but more importantly, makes them appear as superior to their fellow man, and thus a model to be imitated. Is there a discernable pattern in these representations? Or, to put it another way, what distinguishes a nobleman in the nineteenth century? This is a simple question which can only be answered through the display of invisible signs.
	CN, updated 8/31/2007