Pietro Frassica

Pietro is the associate chair of the Department of French and Italian and former director of the interdisciplinary program in Italian studies at Princeton University. A native of Sicily, He earned his Ph.D. in Italian literature from Boston College in 1976, and in recent years, he has extended the field of cultural studies to literary texts concerned with gastronomy in two wildly popular seminars, The Literature of Gastronomy and Italy: The Land of Slow Food. For his lifetime’s work in promoting the Italian culture, Professor Frassica was recently awarded the title of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by the Italian government, the country’s highest-ranking honor.

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