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Ranieri Moore Cavaceppi Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer World Languages and Cultures

Additional Positions at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ
Italian Program Director
Degrees
PhD, Italian Literature, Brown University
MA, Romance Languages, University of North Carolina
BA, European History, University of Pennsylvania

Languages Spoken
Fluent in English and Italian; reading knowledge of French and Latin
Bio
Professor Cavaceppi teaches various levels of Italian at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, including beginner, intermediate, conversation & composition, and topics courses. As Director of the Italian Program, he supervises independent study projects and acts as faculty advisor to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Italian Cultural Club. A Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Cavaceppi spent his formative years in Rome and Washington, D.C., receiving a master's degree from the University of North Carolina and a doctorate from Brown University for his research on medieval and Renaissance Knights Hospitaller.
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • ITAL-118 Italian, Elementary I

  • ITAL-118 Italian, Elementary I

  • ITAL-218 Italian, Intermediate I

  • ITAL-318 Italian Convers & Comp I

Spring 2025

  • ITAL-119 Italian, Elementary II

  • ITAL-219 Italian, Intermediate II

  • ITAL-230 Italian Culture and Society

Partnerships & Affiliations

  • American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS)
    2005 to present

  • American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI)
    2005 to present

  • Fulbright Association
    1999 to present

  • Modern Language Association (MLA)
    1996 to present

  • Renaissance Society of America
    2012 to present

  • Medieval Academy of America
    2012 to present

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Research Interests

Dr. Cavaceppi researches fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Hospitaller Knights, examining their writings and iconography. He also studies twentieth- and twenty-first-century Italian literature and cinema. 

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

  • 2015-16, National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) on Campus Fellow
  • 2008, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Department of World Languages and Cultures written commendation for excellent teaching evaluations
  • 2000-01, Brown University Research Fellowship
  • 1998-99, Fulbright Fellow 

Work In Progress

Currently researching the Hospitallers in Central Europe.

Selected Publications

Ranieri Moore Cavaceppi,Ìý<<Hospitaller Aesthetics: The Self-Fashioning of a Supranational Military Religious Order>>,ÌýL’esthétique des chevaliers-hospitaliers, ou comment un ordre religieux et militaire façonne son image,ÌýÉtudes Épistémè [En ligne], 39 | 2021, https://doi.org/10.4000/episteme.11670. 

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