Elgin K. Eckert

Hello, I am Dr. Elgin K. Eckert, Ph.D. Professor of Italian Studies.

Professor of Italian Studies at The Umbra Institute

October 2010 - Present | Perugia, Italy

Italian Language Beginner and Intermediate; THIT 350: Italian Cinema and Literature

Teaching Fellow at Harvard University

September 2001 - May 2009 | Cambridge, MA

Elementary Italian Language; Advanced Italian Language: "Parliamo dell’Italia"; Oral Expression: "La musica dell'italiano"; The World of Dante’s "Divine Comedy"

Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY

2001 - 2002 | Brooklyn, NY

Core 1: Origins of Western Civilization (Intensive Summer Course)

Harvard University

2001 – 2012

Ph.D.

Concentration: Romance Languages and Literatures

Scuola Normale Superiore

2004 – 2006

Visiting Scholar

Concentration: Italian Studies

Harvard University

1996 – 1999

AM

Concentration: Classical Philology

City University of New York-Brooklyn College

1992 – 1996

BA

Concentration: Classics, Philosophy

Cultural Identity in Narrative Fiction Cultural Memory in Narrative Fiction Contemporary Italian Mystery Novels The Holocaust in Italian Fiction Platonism in Italian Literature Classical Myths in Dante Alighieri