Teaching and Research Interests: Rosalba Pisaturo was born and raised in Messina, Italy and has always been interested in the values of different cultures. Shortly after graduating from Nazareth College she returned to her Alma Mater to teach Italian. During her 15 years at Nazareth College she established a fully accredited Department of Italian Language and Literature and co-founded Casa Italiana, a Center for Italian Studies which sponsors educational programs for the Italian-American community of Rochester. She has studied at the University of Saltillo in Mexico and at the University of Catania in Italy.
    While raising two beautiful girls, Rosalba has also taught Italian and Spanish at St. John Fisher College, the University of Rochester, the Berlitz School of Languages and other public secondary schools. Her primary area of research is the narrative of nineteenth-century European novelists, and she has written comparative essays on Unamuno and Pirandello.
    She has studied at the University of Saltillo in Mexico and at the University of Catania in Italy.
Other interests: reading, classical music, operas, and travel.

Courses: Beginning Spanish 1, 2, 3; Beginning Italian 1, 2, 3.