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Filippo Naitana serves as Professor of Modern Languages and Director of the Italian Program at Quinnipiac University within the College of Arts & Sciences. He joined Quinnipiac in 2012 as an Assistant Professor, advanced to Associate Professor in 2016, and attained full Professorship in 2023 while maintaining directorship of the Italian Program since 2013.
His academic foundation includes a BA from the University of Florence (Universita Degli Studi Di Firenze), followed by both an MPhil and PhD from Yale University.
Naitana's scholarly work centers on Dante and the classical tradition, the Italian Renaissance within Mediterranean frameworks, and creative poetry with literary translation. His research appears in Archivio storico italiano, Dante Studies, and Quaderni Medievali, while his poetry collection Viceversa (2021) achieved commercial prominence topping Amazon's poetry list. His translations and poems feature in The Massachusetts Review, Journal of Italian Translation, La Repubblica, and international anthologies including Writers Between Worlds and Selected International Poetry and Prose by Chinese and Foreign Pen (both 2021).
As Director of the Italian Program, he oversees curriculum development and instruction, teaching foundational courses like IT 101 Elementary Italian I and specialized offerings such as IT 212 Florence and the Making of the Renaissance scheduled for Fall 2025.
