Alberto Gelmi

Alberto Gelmi is an Assistant Professor of Italian at Vassar College, joining in 2021. He holds an M.A. in Romance and Italian Philology from Università degli Studi di Milano and a PhD in Comparative Literature from The Graduate Center, CUNY. His research focuses on medieval and Early Modern Italian literature (Dante, Boccaccio), Jewish culture in Italy, Biblical translations, and Italian linguistics/second language acquisition. He co-edited Italia.Italie. Studi in onore di Hermann Haller (2021) and is working on an edited volume about diversity and inclusive language in Italian curricula. His work appears in journals like Carte Romanze and Heliotropia.

• Education: BA (Università degli Studi di Milano), MA (CUNY), PhD (CUNY).
• Affiliations: Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education; Steering Committee on Jewish Studies.

His recent co-edited volume Rappresentare per includere, supported by Vassar’s Research Committee and the University of Arkansas, emphasizes inclusive language pedagogy. He teaches courses such as Elementary Italian and Advanced Composition.