Barbara Garbin

Assistant Teaching Professor of Italian

Office: Palamountain 429E
Phone: 518-580-5225
E-mail: bgarbin@skidmore.edu 

Education

• Ph.D, Yale University, New Haven
• M.A., Yale University, New Haven
• Laurea cum Laude, Italian Literature, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Research and teaching interests

• Modern Italian Literature, Italian Fantastic Literature, Italian Women Writers, Futurism, Multiculturalism in Italian Literature and Cinema, Literary and Cinematic Representation of Parenthood 

Courses

• FI 101 Elementary Italian
• FI 203 Intermediate Italian through Film
• FI 208 Italian Conversation and Composition: Contemporary Italy from Fascism to today
• FI 310 Il Rinascimento italiano
• FI 363 Special Studies in Italian: True Blood – Ghost, Monsters and Vampires in Italian Literature
• GW 212 Women in Italian Society