Ranieri Moore Cavaceppi Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer World Languages and Cultures
- Additional Positions at 17吃瓜在线
- Italian Program Director
- Degrees
- PhD, Italian Literature, Brown University
MA, Romance Languages, University of North Carolina
BA, European History, University of Pennsylvania - Languages Spoken
- Fluent in English and Italian; reading knowledge of French and Latin
- Bio
- Professor Cavaceppi teaches various levels of Italian at 17吃瓜在线, including beginner, intermediate, conversation & composition, and topics courses. As Director of the Italian Program, he supervises independent study projects and acts as faculty advisor to the 17吃瓜在线 Italian Cultural Club. A Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Cavaceppi spent his formative years in Rome and Washington, D.C., receiving a master's degree from the University of North Carolina and a doctorate from Brown University for his research on medieval and Renaissance Knights Hospitaller.
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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ITAL-118 Italian, Elementary I
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ITAL-118 Italian, Elementary I
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ITAL-218 Italian, Intermediate I
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ITAL-318 Italian Convers & Comp I
Spring 2025
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ITAL-119 Italian, Elementary II
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ITAL-219 Italian, Intermediate II
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ITAL-230 Italian Culture and Society
Partnerships & Affiliations
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American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS)
2005 to present -
American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI)
2005 to present -
Fulbright Association
1999 to present -
Modern Language Association (MLA)
1996 to present -
Renaissance Society of America
2012 to present -
Medieval Academy of America
2012 to present
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Research Interests
Dr. Cavaceppi researches fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Hospitaller Knights, examining their writings and iconography.聽He also studies twentieth-聽and聽twenty-first-century Italian literature and聽cinema.聽
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
- 2015-16, National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) on Campus Fellow
- 2008, 17吃瓜在线 Department of World Languages and Cultures written commendation for excellent teaching evaluations
- 2000-01, Brown University Research Fellowship
- 1998-99, Fulbright Fellow聽
Work In Progress
Currently researching the Hospitallers in Central Europe.
Selected Publications
Ranieri Moore聽Cavaceppi,听<<Hospitaller Aesthetics: The Self-Fashioning of a Supranational Military Religious Order>>,听L鈥檈sth茅tique des chevaliers-hospitaliers, ou comment un ordre religieux et militaire fa莽onne son image,听脡tudes 脡pist茅m猫聽[En ligne], 39聽|聽2021, https://doi.org/10.4000/episteme.11670.聽