Isa Orvieto
Lecturer, Foreign Languages; Italian Program Coordinator
M.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst; M.A., University La Sapienza Rome, Italy
Office hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 12:00-1:20 p.m.
Office: Administration Building, Room 453
Phone: 617-735-9868
E-mail: orvieis@emmanuel.edu
Isa Orvieto grew up and studied in Rome but spent many years in Milan working and raising her children. She holds a Laurea in Literary Studies from the University of Rome (Master degree equivalent) and a Master in Education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She taught Italian for almost 20 years at places like UMass Amherst, Brown, Cornell and the Institute for European Studies in Milan.
Professional Highlights
Isa Orvieto is currently a Lecturer, Foreign Languages and Italian Program Coordinator at Emmanuel College. She is also the creator and leader of a travel course titled Italy Today: A Voyage Through Literature, Cinema and Every day Life. The aim of the course is to offer a direct cultural experience of how Italy has developed into a modern country while holding onto its history, art, and traditions. For more information, click here.
Current Research
Isa Orvieto has been engaged in various cultural and pedagogical initiatives. Recently she designed the testing program for the textbook Sentieri published by Vista Higher Education and all the ancillary material for Parliamo Italiano published by John Wiley & Sons.
She created and she is co-authoring the blog Italian News Clicks.
She is presently working on an e-textbook geared for intermediate and advanced courses, based on a selection of newspaper articles from her blog "Italian News Clicks." The articles are enriched with a variety of stimulating material and can represent a complete content-based academic program.
Courses Taught
- Italian 1301 - Beginning Italian
- Italian 1302 - Beginning Italian
- Italian 2301 - Intermediate Italian
- Italian 2302 - Intermediate Italian
- Italy Today: A Journey Through Literature, Cinema and Everyday Life
Significant Publications
- "I programmi delle superiori in Italia dal 1860 al 1944" (H.S. curricula in Italy from 1860 to 1944)
- Quaderni CIDI, 1981, 11:161-172, F. Angeli, Roma
- "Letteratura controllata Usa" (USA:literature under control) Riforma della Scuola, 2: 35-37, 1984, Ed. Riuniti, Roma
- La didattica della letteratura negli Stati Uniti" (The Teaching of Literature in the US.) Ricerca Educativa, 1: 114-118, 1984. Villa Falconieri, Frascati
OTHER EXPERIENCES
EMERGENCY: Life Support for Civilian War Victims
2003-2010
Italy and U.S.
A nonprofit Italian organization providing medical care and rehabilitation to civilian victims of war. It became a U.S. NGO in February 2005 and a partner of Harvard Humanitarian Initiative in November.
Boston Chapter Coordinator (Volunteer), Boston, MA (September 2005 - 2010)
Volunteer, Milan, Italy (2003 - 2005)
HARVARD HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE (HHI), Cambridge MA
2006 - 2007
A university-wide center involving multiple entities within the Harvard academic and medical community, with the mission to relieve human suffering in war and disaster by advancing the science and practice of humanitarian responses worldwide.
Conference Coordinator: Responsible for coordinating the Humanitarian Health Conference, co-hosted by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Dartmouth Medical School.
