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Hermann Haller to Deliver Lecture on Monday, October 8

Posted by on Friday, October 5, 2018 in Events, HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC.

Hermann Haller, professor of Italian, comparative literature, and French, Queens College, CUNY, will present a lecture entitled “Between Local and Global: The Italian Language in Urban America” on Monday, October 8, at 2:20 pm in Furman Hall 311.

hallerHaller’s primary research interests are Italian linguistics and dialectology, Romance philology, Italian as an immigrant language, and dialect literature. A member of the Accademia della Crusca, he prepared the first critical edition of John Florio’s A Worlde of Wordes (University of Toronto Press, 2013), which features 46,000 Italian entries—among them dialect forms, erotic terminology, colloquial phrases, and proverbs of the Italian language. A Worlde of Wordes was the first-ever comprehensive Italian-English dictionary published in 1598 by Florio.

Sponsors of Haller’s lecture are the Department of History of Art, Department of French and Italian, Max Kade Center for European and German Studies, and the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.

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