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BIO

Antonello Borra is a poet, a translator, and a scholar. He received his Laurea in Lingue e letterature straniere moderne (English and Spanish) from the Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy, in 1988, and both his M.A. (1993) and his Ph.D. (1998) in Italian Studies from Brown University.

His most recent scholarly book is Guittone d’Arezzo. Selected Poems and Prose, University of Toronto Press, 2017. He regularly contributes poems, translations, and critical articles to several journals and magazines both in Italy and the United States. His poems have been translated into English, Catalan, and German.

Languages spoken:
Italian (native speaker)
English (near native fluency)
French (fluent)
Spanish (fluent)
German (reasonably fluent)
Catalan (reading knowledge)
Old Provençal (reading knowledge)
Latin (reading knowledge)
Ancient Greek (basic reading knowledge)

Courses

• ITAL 1100: Elementary Italian I
• ITAL 1200: Elementary Italian II
• ITAL 2100: Intermediate Italian I
• ITAL 2200: Intermediate Italian II
• ITAL 3110: Reading and Writing Workshop
• ITAL 3550: Issues in Italian Culture
• ITAL 3500: Dante's Comedy
• ITAL 3520: Early Italian Literature in Context
• ITAL 3535: Italian Poetry: Love, Etc.
• ITAL 2990: Intermediate Special Topics: The Holocaust in Italian Literature
• ITAL 2990: Intermediate Special Topics: The History of Italian Cinema
• WLIT 2450: Italian Literature in Translation
• HCOL 1990: Honors College First Year Seminar: The Pursuit of Knowledge
• HCOL 2000: Honors College Sophomore Seminar: The Worlds of Dante

Publications

Publications (DOCX)

Awards and Achievements

• 2022 - Altschuler Course Development Grant in Holocaust Studies
  • The Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center For Holocaust Studies
    University of Vermont
• 2019-20 - Humanities Fellow
  • Humanities Center
  • University of Vermont
• 1994 - Brown University President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Honorable Mention, Recipient.

Area(s) of expertise

Italian poetry, translation, and Italian cinema