Instructors
Virginia Agostinelli
Beginning Italian
Virginia Agostinelli was born and raised in the region of Abruzzo, in Central Italy. She moved to Seattle in 2004 to complete a Master in Italian Studies and a Doctorate in Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. She worked as a guidebook researcher and tour guide in Italy for Rick Steves’ Europe and as Co-Director of the Italian Studies Program at the University of Washington Rome Center in 2019 and 2020.
Elizabeth Geoghegan
The Art of Travel Writing
Elizabeth Geoghegan received her MFA in Fiction from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and her MA in Creative Writing from The University of Colorado at Boulder. Geoghegan is the author of the story collection eightball, and the best-selling short memoir The Marco Chronicles. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, TIME, The Best Travel Writing, El Pais, Words Without Borders, BOMB, Poets & Writers, and elsewhere. For the last two decades she has lived and taught in Rome.
Lorenzo Corretti
Communication and Power: the Italian Experience
Dr. Lorenzo Coretti is a professor in the department of Communication. He holds a B.A. in Communication from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, an M.A. in Journalism & Society from the University of East London (UK), and a Ph.D. in Media and Communication from the University of Westminster (London, UK). Since 2015, he is the director of the ‘Communication and Digital Media’ program at The American University of Rome, where he teaches several courses, among which are “Media History,” “Digital Media & Society,” and “Media Ethics.”
Mariella Mastrogiacomo
Art History of Rome
Mariella Mastrogiacomo gained a degree in Classical Archeology in 2002 at the Sapienza University of Rome and earned the Certificate of Post Graduate Studies in Archaeology in 2006 at the University of Basilicata (Italy). Her academic interests had mainly focused on the archaeological aspects of the Roman Emperors’ political propaganda through art language and architectural commissions. Later on, she focused on the decline of the Empire and the rise of early Christians, as seen from the development of architectural and liturgical spaces. As an archaeologist, she worked on excavations in Rome and its suburbs, in Pompei, Sicily, Apulia, and in archaeological sites of the Middle East.
Architecture Instructor
Architectural Studies Abroad: History/Theory
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