Risa Sodi

Risa Sodi is Senior Lector II, and Language Program Director (Ph.D., Yale 1995). She is the author of Narrative and Imperative: The First Fifty Years of Italian Holocaust Writing, 1944-1994 (2007) and A Dante of Our Time: Primo Levi and Auschwitz (1990), as well as articles on modern Italian literature and history. She specializes in Jewish Italy and the Holocaust, Primo Levi, and Italian film. She also directs the Italian language program.

Her courses include Primo Levi and Holocaust Writing, Jewish Italy in Literature and Film, Italian History since 1945, Italian Food and Literature, Italian through Opera and Film, Cross-Cultural Narratives: Italy and America, and Studies in Advanced Language and Style.