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Italian Program In the News

Latest News on the UD Italian Program

Stay up-to-date on all Italian happenings. Have a UD Italian news item? Send it to Dr. Anthony Nussmeier, Director of Italian, at anussmeier@udallas.edu. 

  • Director of Italian Anthony Nussmeier review of The Prose Works of Dante for ClassicalEd Review, April 8, 2025. 

  • IPS student Joe Carlson's PhD dissertation on Dante, “The Failure of Dante’s Convivio: The Limitations of the Philosophic Mode and the Necessity of the Commedia", , March 25, 2025.

  • Alexa Hassell (Italian and Politics '23), currently a student at Notre Dame School of Law (J.D. '26), on the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, August 1, 2024. 

  • Italian Concentrator Anthony Jones (Philosophy '23) as Cardinal Newman Fellow, August 16, 2024. 

  • , Arriving at Dante's Moderate Vision of Politics, July 26, 2024.

  • at an English-language camp in Lombardia, 23 May, 2024.

  • , “Eclipse”, Aleteia, 8 April 2024.

  • "Poetry: Giacomo Leopardi’s ‘The Infinite’ (‘L’infinito’), in The Epoch Times, July 12, 2023.

  • in "Senior Story 2023: Captured by the Classics", May 25, 2023.

  • “Texas in Italy, Italy in Texas: Irving’s Italian Sister City,” The Cor Chronicle, April 19, 2023.

  • "‘Canticle of the Sun’: St. Francis of Assisi and the Art of Praise", in The Epoch Times, April 19, 2023.

  • : “My College Students are not OK”, New York Times, May 13, 2022.

  • on the Hugh Hewitt Show: “Hugh Hewitt Radio Show,” October 8, 2021.

  • : "Why You Should Join People All Over The World In Reading Dante From Now To Easter,” in The Federalist, September 7, 2021.

  • : “Take a journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise with 100 Days of Dante”, Aleteia, 11 August 2021.

  • Italian Program Director Anthony Nussmeier interviewed: "LA Catholic Morning,” 1410 AM/94.5 FM (Archangel Radio), Interview on 100 Days of Dante, Todd Sylvester and Ellen Taylor, July 19, 2021.

  • Italian B.A. added to list of majors at the 91Ӱ: “Italian B.A. Added to List of Undergraduate Degrees,” The University News, March 21, 2018.