John Welle
Emeritus Professor of Italian
Concurrent Professor of Film, Television and Theatre, emeritus
Education
B.A. St. John's University 1974; Master of Arts in Teaching, St. Thomas College 1975; M.A. in Italian, Indiana University 1975; P.H.D. in Italian, Indiana University 1983
Biography
Assistant Professor of Italian, 1983-1989; National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections, 1987; Fulbright Award to Italy, 1989; Associate Professor of Italian, 1989-2002; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1995-1996; Raizis-De Palchi Book Prize, Academy of American Poets, 1999; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2001-2002; Professor of Italian, Concurrent Professor of Film, Television and Theatre, 2002; American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2015-2016; Professor Emeritus, 2018
Research Interests
Modern Italian Literature; Film, Media and Literary Interactions; 20th and 21st Century Italian Poetry; Early Cinema; Translation Studies; Ecocriticism