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Italian program at the University of Tennessee
Department of World Languages and Cultures

04/03/2026

🇮🇹 Want to Learn Italian This Summer?

Join Accelerated Italian (ITA 123)
📅 May 26 – July 1, 2026
💻 Online & asynchronous (6 credits)

Build your speaking, writing, and real-life communication skills—and get ready for Intermediate Italian in the fall!

📩 Info: [email protected]
👉 Senior citizens can take this course FREE by contacting [email protected]

11/25/2025

🎁 Support a Christmas of Joy! 🎁

Help the UTK Italian Club bring books, games, and gifts to kids at East TN Children’s Hospital. Even $1 makes a difference!

Grazie di cuore! ❤️

10/27/2025

🇮🇹 What a day for the Italian Club! 🇮🇹

Huge thank you to everyone who stopped by the Italian booth at the 42nd Annual International Festival! The food, music, and energy were incredible. It wouldn’t have been such a success without all the amazing volunteers, students, and visitors who made it happen.

Your enthusiasm and support truly brought a little piece of Italy to Pedestrian Walkway. Grazie mille to everyone who helped make this event unforgettable! ❤️🍝🇮🇹

10/19/2025

📣 Faculty Spotlight: Renée D’Elia-Zunino

We’re proud to celebrate Renée D’Elia-Zunino, who’s been inspiring UT Knoxville students for 27 years! Her passion for teaching Italian goes far beyond grammar — she connects language to music, culture, and everyday life.

From creative classes designed for engineering students traveling abroad to collaborative projects with the University of Palermo, Renée makes learning Italian an immersive and joyful experience.

Her philosophy says it all:

“Mistakes are part of the process… effort over perfection.”

Thank you, Renée, for your dedication and innovation in teaching! 🇮🇹

Read her full spotlight here:
👉 https://teaching.utk.edu/2025/10/09/faculty-spotlight-renee-delia-zunino/

09/29/2025

🔗❄️ Chained Giants and Frozen Traitors: Inside Dante’s Inferno ###I ❄️🔗
Wednesday, Oct. 1 • 3 PM • HSS 103B

What lies at the threshold of the deepest Hell?
Join us as Dr. Alexander L. Brock guides us through Inferno Canto 31, where towering giants and icy traitors mark the edge of treachery’s domain.

Through myth, metaphor, and medieval vision, Dante shows us what it means to betray — and how close we all stand to the frozen silence of Cocytus.

🧊 Giants.
🩸 Betrayal.
🔥 Dante’s moral architecture, revealed.

📍 Free & open to all.
📚 Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

09/10/2025

📚🔥 Upcoming Lecture on Dante’s Boldest Moves in the Inferno 🔥📚

Join us for a fascinating talk by Dr. Mark Scarbrough:

Hell’s Pope and Virgil’s Manto: Dante’s Boldest Moves in Inferno XIX–XX

🗓 Date: September 17, 2025
🕒 Time: 3:00 – 3:50 PM
📍 Location: HSS 103B or via Zoom (Meeting ID: 5607529194)

Sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences, the Department of World Languages & Cultures, and the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, this lecture explores how Dante crafted some of his most daring and controversial moments in The Divine Comedy.

Don’t miss this opportunity to dive deep into Dante’s Inferno with one of today’s engaging scholars!

✨ Open to students, faculty, and the community.

07/29/2025

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMjlRjnROtu/?img_index=1 Nonnas on screen. Pasta on the table. Say hi to our NONNAS watch parties: UTK Study Abroad in Bologna edition.

06/20/2025

The Italian Program at UTK was thrilled to take part in the Upward Bound Annual Cultural Fair! We welcomed around 100 enthusiastic students who explored Italian culture through trivia, mask-making, watercolor painting, and even learned about Roman armor and shields—thanks to the wonderful collaboration with the Classics Department. 🛡️🎨📚

Upward Bound is a federally funded program that supports low-income, first-generation high school students in our region. Their mission is to expand students’ perspectives and prepare them to earn a college degree within six years of high school graduation—and we’re proud to be part of that journey!

Huge grazie to Laura, Maddux, and Florian for their amazing help in making this event such a success! 💫🇮🇹

06/01/2025

Start your Italian journey this fall at UTK! 🇮🇹 Learn the language, live the culture, and love the experience — Italian 111 awaits!

05/06/2025

🎭✨ You’re invited to Maschere, Inganni, Seduzioni e Musica: L’Italia in Scena!

A dazzling live performance by the students of ITAL 415—featuring scenes from Machiavelli, Goldoni, Mozart, Alfieri, and Pirandello, lively commedia dell’arte sketches, and an original student-written play. Performed in Italian with English subtitles.

🎶 Plus: iconic Italian musical pieces brought to life with live vocal performances!

🗓 Friday, May 9
🕒 3:00–4:30 PM
📍 Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, Haslam Music

Come celebrate the magic of Italian theatre, music, and student creativity! 🇮🇹

Address

701 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN

Website

https://italian.utk.edu/

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