EMMA ELIZABETH PCOLINSKI

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Italian, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2025

• Minor: Art History

• Advisor: Prof. Massimo Scalabrini

• Dissertation Title: “Bridal Education and Virtuous Marriage: Reading Boccaccio through the Cassone Istoriati in Quattrocento Florence”

M.A., Italian Studies, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2017

B.A., cum laude, Liberal Arts, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, 2015

• Majors: Italian Studies and English Literature

AWARDS, HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2021 – 2022 

Office of the Vice President for International Affairs Graduate Exchange Fellowship

2019

Department of French and Italian Excellence in Teaching Award

2016 – 2017

Department of French and Italian First Year Fellowship

2015

Gamma Kappa Alpha National Honors Society

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

2025

“Visions of Venus: Mensola, Fiammetta, and Quattrocento Bridal Education” American Boccaccio Association 6th Triennial Conference, Chicago, IL (18-20 September)

“Alatiel and the Cassone Istoriato in Quattrocento Florence: A Case Study” Bocaccio on the Screen International Conference, Gonzaga in Florence, Florence, Italy (23-24 June)

2019

“Feminine Reception of Lucretia: A Study in Visual and Textual Representations,” Notre Dame Graduate Conference: Employing Interdisciplinarity: Early Modern Legacies, Future Challenges Conference, South Bend, IN (20-21 September)

“Romanticism and the Vigna di Renzo: A Study in the Baroque,” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference – Washington, D.C. (21-24 March)

“Encomiastic Maternity and Feminine Interiority in La Flora feconda,”Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference – Washington, D.C. (21-24 March)

2018

“Marriage Chests and Misunderstanding,” French and Italian Graduate Student Organization Biennal Conference, Bloomington, IN (1-2 March)

2017

“From Verosimile to Vero: The Shifting Representation of the Bubonic Plague in Alessandro Manzoni’s Works,” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference – Pittsburgh, PA (12-15 April)

“Varianti fonologiche nell’epistolario manzoniano,” Australasian Centre for Italian Studies Biennal Conference – Prato (4-7 July)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2022

Cultural Advisor Assistant, College of the Holy Cross

2020 – 2021

Remote Teaching Assistant, College of the Holy Cross

2019 – 2020

Cultural Events Coordinator, Graduate Assistant to the Director of Language Instruction, Indiana University

2019

Teaching Assistant “Laughter, Humor and Wit in the Italian Renaissance,”Graduate Assistant to the Chair, Indiana University

2017 – 2020

Associate Instructor, Indiana University

2017 – 2018

Teaching Assistant and Tutor for Overseas Program “Baylor in Tuscany,”Baylor University

UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

2018 – 2020 Graduate Student Officer

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2023 – 2024 

Assistant Program Coordinator, SAI Programs, Florence, Italy

2021

Events and Education Lead, Eataly, Chicago, IL

LANGUAGES

Italian – near native proficiency

English – native speaker

Latin – reading proficiency

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

The American Boccaccio Association (ABA)

Renaissance Society of America (RSA)