Executive Committee

CIS Executive Committee Members 2026-

Gian Maria Annovi, Italian, University of Southern California

Cristina Della Coletta, Chancellor's Associates Chair in Italian Literature, UC San Diego

Erith Jaffe-Berg, Theatre, UC Riverside

Filippo Gianferrari, Literature, UC Santa Cruz

Sabrina Ovan, Italian and Italian Studies, Scripps College

Federico Pacchioni, Italian Studies, Chapman University

Robert Rushing, Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, UC Los Angeles

Deanna Shemek, Department of European Languages and Studies, UC Irvine

Barbara Spackman, Italian Studies, UC Berkeley

Michael Subialka, French and Italian and Comparative Literature, UC Davis (Editor-in-Chief)

Marla Stone, History, Occidental College

Giancarlo Tursi, UC Santa Barbara

Enrico Vettore, Italian Studies, California State Long Beach

Laura Wittman, French and Italian, Stanford