Academics
Meet the Faculty
Paola G. Lorenzi
Assistant Professor
Italian Language Coordinator
Italian Chapel Organizer
Italian Student's Club Advisor
Division: International Studies and Languages Division
Office: Seaver Academic Complex (SAC) 120
Phone: (310) 506-7423
E-mail: paola.lorenzi@pepperdine.edu
- Doctorate, Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, 1981
- Post graduate studies, Art Center College of Design, CA
Courses:
- Beginning Italian
- Intermediate Italian
- Advanced Italian
- Italian Conversation
- Italian Cinema
- Italian Culture and Civilization
- Contemporary Italian Literature
- Directed Studies: Various Topics
Key Awards/Affiliations:
- Who's Who Among College and University Professors, 2004
- Special recognition for teaching and promoting the Italian language in the United States by the Italian Consul General and Italian Cultural Institute, 2001.
- MLA
- ACFL
- AAIS
- AATI
Academic Interests:
- 20th Century Italian writers
- Contemporary Italian literature through film.
- Italian Cinema
Selected Works:
- Italia: Civilta e Cultura, University Press of America. ISBN 076184158X. January 2009
This text offers a comprehensive description of the Italian civilization in its various aspects: geography, history, art history, music, literature, and cinema. It is a versatile tool for students of Italian or for anyone interested in achieving a better knowledge of historical and cultural developments on the Italian peninsula. - Commercial Terminology for the Oil & Gas Industry, a bilingual vocabulary for the petroleum executives. (Houston: Agip Petroleum Company, Inc. 1987), 1987
- Translation of the short story, "The Rose of Yesterday" by Alessandro Carrera, Review of Contemporary Fiction (Fall 1992), 1992
- Translation of the poem, "The Prodigal Son," by Alessandro Carrera, Houston Poetry Fest 1988 Anthology (Houston: Southwest Literary Arts Council, 1988), 1988
