Faculty
Irene Hatzopoulos
Lecturer, Italian
PhD in Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. in French, Middlebury College, August 2012
M.A. in Italian, Middlebury College, August 2011
B.A. with honors in French, Spanish & Italian, University of California Davis, December 2009
Office: HMNSS 2604
Email: ireneh@ucr.edu
- Acting Chair of the Permanent Panel on Italian Cinema at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) annual conference since 2023
- Certificate awarded for participation in and completion of the “Teaching Italian through Food” Developmental Workshop directed by Dr. Andrea Polegato of the Italian Studies Program at CSU Fresno, Funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
- Pending publication of the article “Foodways of agency: The Representations of Cibo and Queer Spaces in the Films of Ferzan Özpetek” in Erratic Eating: A Transcultural Exploration of Non-Normative Bodies, Sexualities, and Space (final title of volume TBA)
- Co-editor of a volume on “Concentrated Spaces of the Dispelled and Expelled” (final title of volume and other details TBA)
- Creation of FLEAP program, “Italy through Food and Film”, which will hopefully go to Italy for the first time in Summer 2025