Alessio Filippi

Alessio Filippi is an Associate Professor (Teaching) of Italian at the University of Southern California, affiliated with the Department of French and Italian within the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. He has taught Italian language and literature courses at USC since 2001, with prior appointments at UCLA, Pepperdine University, and Istituto Italiano di Cultura.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007
• M.A. in Italian Literature/Language, University of California, Los Angeles, 1998

Professor Filippi's research explores medieval Italian literature through interdisciplinary lenses, particularly examining intersections of food, body, and sin in religious contexts. His work analyzes Italian novelle from Boccaccio to the 15th century, with specialized focus on female saints in medieval Tuscany. Additional research spans WWI literature, Renaissance culinary traditions, and modern Italian political history.