Study Abroad: Bologna Faculty

Anna Maria Di Martino

Anna Maria Di Martino has been Assistant Director of the Brown University Program in Italy since August 2000. She is also program coordinator and instructor of the Brown Summer-in-Bologna Program. Her twofold interests in foreign Culture/Language/ Literature and Applied Linguistics inform her research, publications and didactic commitment. Besides serving as Coordinator of Italian Language Programs and as Trainer for Teaching Assistants at university level, she taught various courses on Foreign Language Methodology at universities in Italy (Suor Orsola Benincasa - Naples) and in the United States (OSU). In 2003 she co-authored Scenario Italiano. Materiali di Lettura per studenti stranieri (Bologna: Zanichelli), a reader for students of Italian as a foreign language which focuses on the socio-economic dynamics which have contributed to the changing image of Italy over the last decade. In 1997 she published "Quel divino ingegno" Giulio Perticari. Un intellettuale tra Impero e Restaurazione (Naples: Liguori) based on her PhD dissertation in Italian Studies at Brown. It is the first monographic study of the author and linguist from eighteenth-century Romagna.

Lilia Ceroni

Lilia Ceroni has been working as an administrator for the Brown-in Bologna Program since it was established in 1983. She also takes care of the bureaucratic affairs for student visa registration and student lodging issues. She incarnates the historical memory of the program. Lilia has worked with the Summer program since it began in 2004. Lilia has a strong interest in encountering cultures different from hers. Before working for Brown, she traveled extensively for work and pleasure. She also visited the Brown Campus more than once which helped her understand the world the American students come from. Lilia comes from a small village in Tuscany near Florence, but moved to Monzuno outside Bologna when she married. She feels comfortable dealing with and encountering students- generally her son's age-sharing their enthusiasm for the culture, art and natural beauty of Italy when they come to Bologna.