Rank: Full professor of Italian

Education: Laurea in Classics, University of Florence, Italy

Contact Information: RGRLL Department

Research and Teaching Interests
Italian Language, Culture, and Literature; Women Writers; Giacomo
Leopardi; Theory and practice of Translation; second language acquisition;
Contemporary Italian Poetry

Selected publications
Books
La vita in cerchio. Rome: Stango, 2004. Selected poetry by Irene Marchegiani.

Promises of Love. Trans. by Carol Lettieri and Irene Marchegiani Jones of selected poetry by Plinio Perilli. Preface by Irene Marchegiani Jones and Carol Lettieri. New York: Gradiva Publications, 2004.

Land of Time. Edited by Irene Marchegiani. Preface by Dante Della Terza. New York: Chelsea Editions. A bilingual anthology of Luigi Fontanella's poetry.

Aminta. A Patoral by Torquato Tasso. Trans. Charles Jernigan and Irene Marchegiani Jones. Intr. by Charles Jernigan and Irene Marchegiani Jones. New York: Italica Press, 2000.
In Spring 2002, this volume was awarded the prestigious Italian Monselice "Diego Valeri" prize for translation.

The Poetics of Place: Florence Imagined. Ed. by Irene Marchegiani Jones and Thomas Haeussler. Preface by Irene Marchegiani Jones. Florence: Olschki, 2000.

Angels of Youth. Trans. by Carol Lettieri and Irene Marchegiani Jones of Ceres by Luigi Fontanella. Preface by Irene Marchegiani Jones and Carol Lettieri. Xenos Books, 2000.

The Star of Free Will by Maria Luisa Spaziani. Trans. by Carol Lettieri and Irene Marchegiani Jones. Intr. by Irene Marchegiani Jones. Montreal: Guernica, 1996.

Crescendo!, Lexington: D. C. Heath and Co., 1994. (Co-author Prof. Francesca Italiano, University of Southern California).

Incontri Attuali (with Francesca Italiano, USC), Holt, Rinehart and Winston, November 1991.