Caitlin Schaer
Credentials: PhD Candidate in Italian
Email: cschaer@wisc.edu
Address:
708 Van Hise Hall
EDUCATION
- Masters Degree from NYU Florence
- Bachelors Degree from DePaul University—Double Major in Italian and Anthropology
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Italian cinema, with particular focus on documentary and ethnographic film; Anthropology, uses of ethnology and visual anthropology; “Questione meridionale”, particularly as addressed through the cinematic medium.
DISSERTATION TITLE
Understanding the Italian “Other” Through Italian Ethnographic Film from the 1950s and 1960s
COURSES TAUGHT
- Italian 101—First Semester Italian
- Italian 102—Second Semester Italian
- Italian 201—Accelerated First and Second Semester Italian
- Communication Arts 100—Public Speaking and Writing
- Grader for Italian 460—Italian Cinema
- Grader for Italian 340—Romance Linguistics
- Grader for Italian 452 —Italian American Film
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- AAIS 2013—”The Political Discourse of Silvio Berlusconi”
- MMLA 2016—”How to Explain a Supernatural Illness: The Case of Tarantism in Southern Italy”
- AAIS 2017—“Understanding the Italian ‘Other’: Diverse Modes of Visual Ethnographic Representation”
- NEMLA 2018— “The Experimental Documentary Form of Pier Paolo Pasolini”