Joseph Luzzi, the first American-born child in his Italian family, holds a doctorate from Yale and is a professor of Italian at Bard. He is the author of "Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy," which won the Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies from the Modern Language Association, and "A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film." An active critic, his essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Bookforum, and The Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of the audio courses "In Michelangelo’s Shadow: The Mystery of Modern Italy," "The Blessed Lens: A History of Italian Film," and "The Art of Reading." His honors include an essay award from the Dante Society of America, a teaching prize from Yale, and a fellowship from the National Humanities Center. Luzzi lectures widely on Italy, literature, art, and film. Visit him online at www.JosephLuzzi.com, and follow him on Twitter at @LuzziJoseph.
