MCAS Faculty
M. Aloisi BA, MPhil, PhD (ABD)
Adjunct Associate Professor of History
degrees
B.A. (University of Malta)
M.Phil (University of Cambridge)
PhD in (University of Minnesota)
teaching
-HP MH 250 (Italy: from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance)
-HP MH 251 (Italy from Unification to the 20th Century: a Southern Perspective)
-HP MH 352 (Crusaders and Holy wars)
-CS PR 354 (Religions in confluence: Christianity, Judaism and Islam in Medieval and early modern times)
-HP PS 250 (Mafia: Politics and History)
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Mark Aloisi holds a B.A. in History & Contemporary Mediterranean Studies (University of Malta, 1995) and an M.Phil in Medieval Italian History (Thesis Title: "Conquest and Trade in the Medieval Mediterranean: Pisa and Sardinia, 13th-15th centuries.") from the University of Cambridge. He is currently completing his PhD (submission date: December, 2006) from the University of Minnesota on "Economy and society in late Medieval Sicily: Sciacca and its hinterland during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries." His research interests include the political, social, and economic history of the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean (especially Sicily, southern Italy, Malta and North Africa) and has published and lectured on topics including agrarian history, Mediterranean peasants, piracy and corsairing, agriculture and trade in Late Medieval/Early Modern Sicily and Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in Medieval Sicily and southern Italy.
L. Aureli Dip., BA.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Photography
degrees
BA (Napier College, Scotland)
teaching
-SA PH 101 (Photography 1)
-SA PH 201 (Photography 2)
-SA PH 301 (Photography 3)
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Laura Aureli holds a Diploma in Photography from Stevenson College (Edinburgh, Scotland) and a BA in Photography, Film, and Television from (Edinburgh, Scotland). Laura has pursued an active professional career in photography in the UK and in Italy: with exhibitions in Edinburgh at the Institute of Italian Culture (1997, 2000); the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (1995); the KJP Gallery (1997) and the Attic Gallery (1997). She has been given numerous commissions by major newspapers in Scotland, worked for the BBC in Glasgow and has worked on freelance projects in Naples and throughout Sicily.
Dr. B. Behncke BSc., MSc., PhD.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Geology
degrees
BSc (Christian-Albrechts Universität, Germany)
MSc (Christian-Albrechts Universität, Germany)
PhD (Università degli Studi Catania, Italy)
courses taught
-ES GE 250 (Volcanology : Etna)
-ES AG 250 (People of Etna: Living on the Volcano)
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Boris Behncke took an MSc in Geological Sciences from Christian-Albrechts Universität (Kiel, Germany) and completed his PhD thesis (Università degli Studi Catania, Italy) on the Tectonic, sedimentary and volcanic evolution of the northern margin of the Hyblean Plateau (Sicily) from the Upper Miocene to the Quaternary ("Evoluzione tettonico-sedimentaria e vulcanica del margine settentrionale Ibleo dal Miocene superiore al Quaternario"). His research interests include eruptive and depositional volcanic processes and he has published on the geology of the Hyblean Plateau and recent eruptive activity at Mount Etna.
J. L. Brooke BA., MLitt.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Creative Writing
degrees
BA (University of East Anglia)
MLitt. (University of Birmingham)
courses taught
-SA CW 250 (Travel Journal: Creative Writing)
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Julia Brooke holds a BA in English Literature (University of East Anglia, UK) and a Masters of Literature degree from the University of Birmingham. She is a member of the Renaissance Drama Research Group of The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, has published in the recent Cambridge Guide to Women's Literature and is currently working on a book on English Renaissance drama.
Dr. S. A. Burgess BA., MA., PhD.
Academic Director
Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy/Classical Studies
degrees
BA. (University of Reading)
MA. (University of Reading)
PhD. (University of Wales
courses taught
-CS PR 250 (Philosophy before Socrates: the Presocratics)
-CS PR 351 (Plato)
-CS AS 350 (Greek & Roman Medicine)
-CS AS 251 (Women in the Ancient World: Body & Biology
-HP PS 351 (Greek & Roman Political Theory)
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Scott Burgess holds a BA in Ancient History and an MA Ancient Philosophy (University of Reading, UK). He completed his PhD (2003, University of Wales, UK) in Ancient Philosophy and Medicine on the Composition, Structure and Functioning of the Human Soul and Body in the Timaeus of Plato. Research interests include: Ancient Philosophy (esp. Plato), Ancient Medicine and Political Thought. He has published papers on related topics and is currently working on a book on Plato's Timaeus.
Dr. S. Fella BA., MA. PhD.
Adjunct Associate Professor of History
degrees
BA (University of Liverpool)
MA (University of Middlesex)
PhD (University of North London)
courses taught
-HP MH 155 (Western Civilization II)
-HP MH 250 (Italy: from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance)
-HP MH 251 (Italy from Unification to the 20th Century: a Southern Perspective)
-HP PS 250 (Mafia: Politics and History)
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Dr. Fella holds an MA and a PhD in the area of Modern Italian/European Studies and has mot only lectured widely and published in this area but has also made significant contributions to EU public policy working papers. His research interests focus on Italian politics, right-wing parties and race and immigration politics.
M. Fillioley BA. MA.
Italian Language Lecturer
degrees
BA. (Università degli Studi di Pisa)
MA. (Milano, i.s.i.t. - istituto superiore interpreti e traduttori)
courses taught
-IT IL 105-365 (Italian Language 1-Italian Language 4)
-IT IN 155-355 (Italian Language Intensive 1-Italian Language Intensive 3)
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M. Fillioley holds a Laurea in Philosophy (Università degli Studi di Pisa) and a masters degree in literary translation (Milano, i.s.i.t. - istituto superiore interpreti e traduttori). Mario is a full member of the a.i.t.i. (Associazione Italiana Traduttori e Interpreti, the official association of Italian translators and interpret ers) and has published a number of literary translations.
Dr. M. E. Gorrini BA., MA., PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor of Archaeology & Classical Language
degrees
BA. (Università di Pavia)
MA. (Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene)
PhD. (Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli)
courses taught
-CS AR 351 (Greek Archaeology and Art)
-CS AR 354 (Roman Archaeology and Art)
-CS AR 355 (Uses & Abuses of Antiquity: artistic, literary and cinematic uses of classical models)
-CS AS 251 (Women in the Ancient World: Body & Biology)
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Mari Elena Gorrini holds the following qualifications: Laurea in Lettere Classiche (Università di Pavia); Specializzazione in Archeologica (Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene); Dottorato in Archeologia (2004, Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli/ Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene). Her PhD research, which she is preparing for publication as a monograph, concerns Greek healing heroes and she lectured and published articles on individual heroes and on wider topics in classical archaeology, the history of religion and art.
Dr. R. Guarino BSc., MSc., PhD.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Ecology
degrees
BA. (Università di Pavia)
MA. (Università degli Studi di Pisa)
PhD. (Università degli Studi di Parma)
courses taught
-ES EC 250 (Mediterranean Ecosystems: an Introduction to Terrestrial and Marine Environments)
-ES EC 351 (Pollution, Overexploitation and Environmental Policy in the Mediterranean)
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Dr. Guarino holds a BSc in Natural Sciences (Università di Pavia), an MSc in Environmental Management and Auditing (Università degli Studi di Pisa) and took his PhD in Environmental Sciences from the Università degli Studi di Parma. His research interests focus on the ecology and phytogeography of Mediterranean, Submediterranean, and Alpine territories and has carried out work (in co-operation with the Universities of Cagliari, Catania, Rome and Milan) on human impact assessment, environmental restoration, syntaxonomical surveys, effectiveness studies of environmental and bioclimatic indexes, working with geologists, geomorphologists, pedologists, hydrobiologists, zoologists, chemists, and engineers. Dr. Guarino has published a monograph, contributed to over twenty refereed articles and won two awards for his writing. He is a member of the Italian Botanical Society, of OPTIMA (an international organization for Mediterranean plant taxonomy), and of the Italian Ecological Society.
S. Kimbell MA., MA.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Art History
degrees
MA. (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
MA. (Newcastle Polytechnic University, UK)
courses taught
-SA AA 250 (History of Art & Architecture in Sicily)
-SA AA 351 (Medieval Art History: Byzantine, Arabic & Norman art in Sicily)
-SA AA 352 (Baroque & 19th century Art & Architecture in Sicily)
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Susanna Kimbell holds an MA in Art History and Italian Art (University of Edinburgh, Scotland), where she completed a dissertation on the Annunciation by Antonello da Messina, and a second MA in Art Conservation and Restoration (Newcastle Polytechnic University, UK).
M. Lamboley BFA., MFA.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Studio Arts
degrees
BFA (University of Kansas)
MFA (John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, California)
courses taught
-SA DR 101 (Drawing 1)
-SA DR 201 (Drawing 2)
-SA DR 301 (Drawing 3)
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Mary Lamboley holds a BFA (1997) in Painting from the University of Kansas and an MFA (2004) in Arts and Consciousness from the John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, California. She has won numerous awards, including the Daniel McMorris Scholarship (1996, 1997) and has exhibited her work at various locations, including: London, San Francisco, Berlin, Paris, Florence and New York City
Dr. G. Lombardo BA., PhD.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Literature
degrees
BA. (Università degli Studi Catania, Italy)
PhD. (Università degli Studi Catania, Italy)
courses taught
-IT LM 250 (Sicily: Literature & Culture)
-IT LM 350 (Sicily: Literature & Culture in Italian)
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Giovanna Lombardo holds an undergraduate degree European Literature & Literary Theory and a PhD ("An uninterrupted conversation. Leonardo Sciascia as a publisher") from the University of Catania.
Dr. M. Metcalfe BA., MA., PhD.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Ancient History/Classical Studies
degrees
BA (St. Mary's University College)
MA. (University College London)
PhD. (University College London)
courses taught
-CS AH 250 (Greek History: from Agamemnon to Alexander)
-CS AH 251 (Ancient Roman History: from Republic to Empire)
-CS AH 252 (Ancient Sicily: from Aeneas to Justinian)
-CS LL 350 (Greek Myth & Religion)
-CS AS 251 (Women in the Ancient World: Body & Biology)
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Michael Metcalfe holds a BA in Classics & History (St. Mary's University College), an MA in Ancient History (University College London) and completed his PhD (2006) on the social relations between Greek communities on the western coastline of Asia Minor: 'Reaffirming regional identity: cohesive institutions and local interactions in Ionia 386-129 BC'. Research interests include: regional history in the Hellenistic period, Greek epigraphy, the Hellenization and Romanization of central Asia Minor, and the history of western Sicily from the 8th to 2nd centuries BC. He has several articles in press, and is currently working on the publication of a substantial number of inscriptions recorded by a British archaeological expedition to the eastern Mediterranean in the early 19th century.
P. Moroni BA. Italian Studies
Italian Language Lecturer
degrees
BA (Università degli Studi di Bologna)
courses taught
-IT IL 105-365 (Italian Language 1-Italian Language 4)
-IT IN 155-355 (Italian Language Intensive 1-Italian Language Intensive 3)
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Paola Moroni holds a Laurea in Lettere Classiche (Università degli Studi di Bologna) and a qualification in teaching italian to university students (Università per stranieri di Siena)
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