Fiona M. Stewart
Biography
Fiona M. Stewart is Associate Professor of Italian and Coordinator of Italian at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. Her MA and her PhD are from the University of Glasgow. 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 Professor Stewart combines literary, historical and cinematic sources to analyze how and why Italians of the twentieth and twenty-first century recount and interpret individual and national experiences. This interdisciplinary approach allows her research to contribute new knowledge both to well-studied and lesser-known individual and collective Italian experiences.
Education
- PhD Italian, University of Glasgow, 2007
- MA (Hons.) Italian & Latin, University of Glasgow, 2000
Topics
- Twentieth Century Italy
- Interpretation and representation of Italian experience
- Works and methodology of Nuto Revelli
- Italian cinema
- Filmmaking of Roberto Rossellini
Courses
- GSCL 199: First Year Seminar: Excursions in Italian Culture
- ITAL 151: Elementary Italian I
- ITAL 152: Elementary Italian II
- ITAL 252: Second Year Italian II
- ITAL 341: Advanced Italian Grammar and Composition
- ITAL 342: Italian in Communication
- ITAL 361: Italian Literature through Film: From the Novel to the Screen
- ITAL 380: Italian Civilization
- ITAL 451: Contemporary Italian Literature
- ITAL 452: Topics in Italian Culture: Primo Levi – Writer and/or Witness?
- FILM/ITAL 462: Italian Cinema from Neorealism to the Present
- ITAL 499: Directed Studies: Making Sense of Contemporary Realities
- ITAL 599: Directed Studies: Literary Responses to C20th Realities
- ITAL 599: Directed Studies: Reading Calvino through a Christian Lens