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Michael Vena
Michael Vena received his Ph. D. at Yale in 1972. A Professor Emeritus
of Italian Studies from Southern Connecticut State University, he has
been interested in modern Italian theat...ver másMichael Vena received his Ph. D. at Yale in 1972. A Professor Emeritus
of Italian Studies from Southern Connecticut State University, he has
been interested in modern Italian theater from a literary standpoint and
as a pedagogical tool in language acquisition, which has led to published
textbooks, translations and articles on language, literature and theater. His
renaissance interests have led Dr. Vena to do research on L.B. Alberti’s
language which has been incorporated in two etymological dictionaries in
Italy and Germany. In summer 1997 he was an invited visiting scholar at the
Italian Academy of Language in Florence, where he produced an interactive
concordance of all the vernacular works by L. B. Alberti (the three volumes
edited by C. Grayson from Laterza).
Dr. Vena has been active professionally at the local and national level. He
was a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities
and the Fulbright Fellowship, served as a consultant to the Educational
Testing Service in Princeton, and was for three years an Examinver menos