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Beginners Tavola Italiana – Italian Language Practice Session
Presented by Dr. Erin McCarthy King
with Additional Commentary by Dr. Rocky Ruggiero

Are you interested in brushing up your Italian conversation skills? Are you planning on taking our Intermediate Italian course in January and want to keep your skills sharp? Join us for Tavola Italiana, an informal 30 minute session of conversation and vocabulary practice. You will be placed in small groups with others of your skill level and provided with prompts and vocabulary to start conversation, or you may converse about topics that interest your group! Dr. King will visit the break-out groups and be available to answer questions. We hope to see you there!

Please note:

• Your participation is confirmed once you have purchased your ticket. You will receive the Zoom link to join the presentation circa 30 minutes before the start time.

Lecturer

Erin McCarthy King, Ph.D. has been teaching Italian Language and Literature since 2004. Erin earned a combined B.A. and M.A. in Italian Language and Literature from Yale University in 1998 and then her Ph.D. from Yale in 2009. She has been a Lector of Italian at Yale University and an Instructor at Sacred Heart University, Southern Connecticut State University, Quinnipiac University, The Hopkins School and Fairfield University. She currently teaches French and Italian at an all-boys, private prep school. Erin has published several articles, including “The Voyage of Columbus as a ‘non pensato male’: The Search for Boundaries, Grammar, and Authority in the Aftermath of the New World Discoveries” © 2012, and has presented several conference research papers including “The Logic of the Clock: Dante’s Similes of the Horologe in Paradiso X and XXIV” and most recently, “Language and the Expansion of the Ecumene in the Mondo nuovo of Tommaso Stigliani”. Erin serves as an alumna interviewer for Yale College Admissions and as a member of the Yale Alumni Schools Committee. In her spare time, Erin and her husband are very busy parents to their four children.