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Santa Casciani,
Ph.D.
Dr. Santa Casciani, is Associate Professor of Italian language
and literature at John Carroll. She has developed under-graduate
courses dealing with Italian and Italian American issues. She
has published extensively in Italian literature, including
work focused on authors such as Dante and Michelangelo. She
is also the Director of the Bishop Anthony M. Pilla Program
in Italian American Studies at John Carroll University.
Before coming to John Carroll to direct the Bishop Pilla Program
in 1999, Dr. Casciani held faculty positions at the Pennsylvania
State University and the University of Missouri at Columbia.
She earned her Ph.D. in Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
her M.A. in Italian at the Ohio State University, and her B.A.
in Italian and English at Saint John Fisher College in Rochester,
New York. She was born in L’Aquila, Italy, and immigrated
to Rochester, New York, as a teenager.
Spring 2008
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Giuseppina Mileti,
M.A.
Adjunct Instructor in Italian
Coordinator for the Bishop Anthony M. Pilla
Program in Italian American Studies
Giuseppina Mileti is Adjunct Instructor of Italian language
at John Carroll University, and Coordinator of the Bishop Anthony
M. Pilla Program in Italian American Studies. Since her arrival
to John Carroll University in 1995, Mrs. Mileti has been teaching
Italian language and culture courses at all levels. Mrs. Mileti
develops and teaches enrichment courses and organizes related
educational trips to Italy. She works as a liaison between
the Bishop Pilla Program and the Italian American community
of Northeast Ohio, by coordinating the Program’s lectures,
fundraisers, and social events. Mrs. Mileti also promotes the
Italian language in high schools and cooperates with Italian
American associations in the Cleveland area, working to bring
the Italian language to high school curricula. She is a point
of reference for students of Italian seeking scholarships from
Italian American organizations at the local and national level.
In 1995 she started the JCU Italian Club, for which she is
the moderator, working closely with the students to help plan
cultural, recreational, and service activities and events.
After receiving her degree in languages in Italy, Mrs. Mileti
taught English for over 10 years in Italian middle schools and
high schools. Before coming to John Carroll, Mrs. Mileti taught
Italian language courses in Cleveland area schools and colleges.
She tutored and interpreted privately for individual students,
artists, and professionals. Since 1995, Mrs. Mileti has been
the official Italian interpreter for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation
International Center, serving as a liaison between doctors and
Italian patients, and interpreting for Italian doctors visiting
the Clinic.
Spring 2008
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Serena Scaiola-Ziska,
L.L.F.,
Visiting Instructor of Italian and Lower Division Coordinator
A Rome, Italy, native, she graduated in 1995 from Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” with a doctoral degree in Italian literature. In 1991-92 she also attended Cornell University.
While still living in Rome she worked for RAI-TV, the main national TV station, writing screenplays and case stories for various nationally broadcast programs.
Upon moving to the United States in late 1995, she began teaching all levels of Italian at Kent State University, where she worked until 1999. Between 2000 and 2001 she also taught in the same capacity at Cuyahoga Community College.
In August of 1996, she joined the Italian section at JCU, as a part-time language instructor. Over the years, in addition to her duties within the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Cultures, she has offered beginning, intermediate and conversation classes for the Continuing Education Office, in conjunction with which she has also launched in 2005 “Ciao Bambini”, a language class designed for children.
In 2005 she became a full-time member of the same Department in her capacity as Visiting Instructor of Italian and Lower Division Coordinator.
Alongside teaching she also provided translations as well as interpreting services in fields raging from legal documents and technical manuals to business meetings.
In March 2000, she became the official Italian language translator for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, a position she held until 2006.
In September 2006, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has appointed her Honorary Vice Consul of Italy in Cleveland, in which capacity she works closely with the Consul of Italy in Detroit. In addition to representing the Italian authorities in Ohio and being of assistance to Italian authorities visiting this State, her official duties also encompass providing direct assistance to the large local Italian and Italian American community and supporting as well as organizing initiatives promoting the diffusion of the Italian language, culture and business opportunities. Her office is located downtown Cleveland.
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FACULTY
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Patrizia Argentieri, M.B.A.,
Lecturer in Italian
Patrizia Argentieri was born and raised in the beautiful countryside of the Sibillini mountains in Central Italy. She has been living in the Cleveland area since late 1994. She enjoys teaching Italian at John Carroll University since 2006.
At the age of seventeen, thanks to a scholarship granted from the Italian Ministry of Education, she came to the USA for one year as an exchange student. She attended Falmouth Academy in Massachussets, from which she graduated with honors.
In the following years, in Italy, she earned an M.B.A from “Luigi Bocconi” University of Milan. Her final dissertation was a field research at multinational corporation Bailey Controls in Wickliffe, Ohio, for which she obtained a scholarship. Subsequently in the US she worked for financial firms such as Prudential Financial and Scottrade.
Since 2002, she has actively promoted the Italian Language instruction at all levels in the Cleveland area. She has been the Italian language employee trainer for Nestle Corporation in Solon, Ohio and the area interpreter for the Italian Trade Commission of Chicago. She has also provided translations and interpreting services for individuals and organizations in fields as varied as literature, legal, technical, medical, business and marketing.
Spring 2008
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Marina Caruso Natale,
M.A. ,
Lecturer in Italian
Marina Caruso Natale, a native of Rome, holds a degree in
Modern Languages and Literature, an advanced degree in Simultaneous
Interpretation and Translation and an M.A. in Spanish.
Prior to moving to the United States, she worked for the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs where she taught Italian, English and Spanish
to members of the National and Foreign Diplomatic Corp. She was
also the official interpreter for many Italian and Foreign Government
officials, including Heads of State. She worked for several agencies
of the United Nations, Italian Ministries, and private international
organizations. For three years, she was the official interpreter
for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of
Agriculture and the State of Israel, a joint project with the
European Union.
She also was the official translator for "Ulisse 2000",
the Alitalia magazine, FAO, Unicef, RAI and private TV networks.
Several of her translations have been published in major newspaper
and magazines. One of them received a commendation from the offices
of King Juan Carlos of Bourbon of Spain.
After moving to the US, she worked at Duke University as Coordinator
of the Undergraduate Program in Italian and later at the University
of Kentucky as Coordinator of the Italian Program at the Department
of Spanish and Italian. While there she organized the Italian
Section of the Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.
In 2001 she moved to Cleveland and joined the Department of
Classical and Modern Languages and Cultures at JCU, where she
enjoys teaching Italian and Spanish.
Spring 2008
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Sarah Iammarino,
Ph.D. ,
Lecturer in Italian
Spring 2008 - not teaching
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Cristiana Mastrogiacomi,
M.A. ,
Lecturer in Italian
Spring 2008 - not teaching
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