Fiona M. Stewart
Biography
Fiona M. Stewart is Associate Professor of Italian Studies and serves as Associate Dean of International Programs. Prior to joining the Pepperdine faculty in 2013, she taught at the University of Glasgow, the University of Kentucky and the Pennsylvania State University. In her research Dr. Stewart combines literary, historical and cinematic sources to analyze how and why Italians of the twentieth century recount and interpret individual and national experiences as they do. Her more recent scholarly endeavors have taken a theological interest in Italian conceptions of human dignity and flourishing, particularly among the generazione del littorio.
Education
- PhD Italian, University of Glasgow, 2007
- MA (Hons.) Italian & Latin, University of Glasgow, 2000
Topics
- Twentieth Century Italian experience: its representation and interpretation
- The Generazione del littorio and subsequent conceptions of human dignity and flourishing
- Works and methodology of Nuto Revelli
- Italian cinema
Courses
General Education/Seaver Core:- Foundations of Reasoning
- Christianity & Culture: Encounters with Christianity in the British Isles
- Christianity & Culture: Traces of imago Dei in Italian Cinema
- Elementary Italian I & II
- Second Year Italian I & II
- Advanced Italian Grammar and Composition
- Italian in Communication: The Language of Media
- Italian Literature through Film: From the Novel to the Screen
- Italian Civilization
- Masterpieces of Italian Literature
- Contemporary Italian Literature
- Topics in Italian Culture: Primo Levi – Writer and/or Witness?
- German Nazis, Italian Fascists, and European Jews
- Italian Cinema from Neorealism to the Present