Laura Lazzari is an Assistant Professor of Italian at Franklin
College Switzerland. She studied Italian, French and History of Art
at the University of Lausanne, where she obtained an MA in 2001.
She also hold a Diploma of Teaching French as a Foreign Language
from the same university (2000). In 2005 she was awarded a
scholarship from Lausanne University, in order to spend a year at
the University of Oxford, where she obtained a Master of Studies in
Women’s Studies. In June 2009 she completed a PhD in Italian
literature (Lausanne University), and an MA in Teaching (SUPSI,
DFA). Prior to joining Franklin College she worked as a graduate
assistant in Italian literature at the University of Lausanne, and
as a Lecturer at the University of Fribourg. In the last years she
has published several articles on a wide range of subjects and has
given papers in graduate schools and international conferences in
Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom and the
United States. Her interests in research revolve around
autobiographies in the Renaissance period, women’s writings in the
Italian-speaking world, postcolonial and migrant literature,
translation, pedagogy and language acquisition. She is a member of
various associations, including the Collegium Romanicum, the Swiss
Association of Romance languages. For more information, see:
http://sites.google.com/site/lazzarilaura