In early March, Marella Feltrin-Morris, professor in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Ithaca College, translated famous Italian writer Grazia Deledda’s short story “La porta stretta.” Morris also wrote a chapter in “Grazia Deledda’s Painterly Aesthetic,” called “The Space Between: Deledda’s Doors as Frames for Visual and Symbolic Landscapes,” which seeks to dive deeper into Deledda’s imagery of the Door. 

The Italian and Spanish conversation groups on campus, known as Chiacchiere and Tertulias respectively consist of weekly informal sessions for students to practice their conversation skills.

A wealthy woman and her maid take in a handsome beggar and go to absurd and hilarious lengths to compete for his love. A fraudulent medium abuses her mute foster son and eventually slips into insanity...

The theme of the prom was An Evening At Gatsby's, featuring jazz tunes from the '20s. The event featured Italian food and jazz tunes from the '20s.

“You can study through books, but by personal experiences, you get to master it,” he said. “The books won’t show you the language of the street. You need to go out and, for example, learn slang. These communities would help with the oral component.”