frassica@princeton.edu
Pietro Frassica, a native of Italy, earned his Ph.D. in Italian literature from Boston College (1976) and has taught at Princeton since 1976, when he joined the Princeton faculty. His interests include Italian literature of the Renaissance, interdisciplinary relations between literary and visual traditions in the eighteenth century (Parini), contemporary literature (Primo Levi, Marinetti, Soldati, Lagorio), theater (Pirandello), and gastronomy in literature. He teaches seminars on courtly literature of the Italian Renaissance, major authors of fiction in the 20th century, and on the theater of Pirandello.
Read Professor Frassica’s full biography on the Department of French and Italian website.
