Episode 11 | Silvia Tiboni-Craft

Silvia Tiboni-Craft is an Associate Teaching Professor of Italian at Wake Forest University. She obtained both a B.A. and M.A. in Italian Literature from the Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo with a special focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. In 2006, she moved to the United States thanks to an exchange program between her Italian university and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she collaborated with the Italian Department. After a year she started her Ph.D. in Italian at Rutgers University, and she completed it in 2015 with a dissertation on Italian women writers entitled Fantasy of the Domestic Space. Since starting her employment at Wake Forest in 2012, Silvia has taught a variety of courses in Italian Language, Culture and Literature and she has led several research projects with students at the undergraduate level. She has successfully created numerous extra-curricular activities to create a sense of community on campus and within the greater Winston-Salem area. Silvia’s research and teaching interests include 19th and 20th century Italian women writers, 20th century Italian poetry, domestic space, feminist theory, and pedagogy. Silvia worked on a pedagogical project on the use of 3D videos and virtual reality to facilitate students’ learning of Italian Language, Literature and Culture.