Ranieri Moore Cavaceppi

Instructor
Department of Language and Foreign Studies

• Additional Positions at AU

  Coordinator of the Italian Language Program
  
• Professor Cavaceppi teaches various levels of Italian at American University, including beginner, intermediate, and advanced conversation and composition courses. As the primary instructor at AU, he promotes Italian studies by fostering interest in its culture, by inviting guest speakers to the university, and by supervising the independent study projects of undergraduate students. He is also the faculty advisor to the AU Italian Club. A Fulbright Fellow and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Cavaceppi received an MA in Italian Literature from the University of North Carolina and a PhD at Brown University for his research on Italian Renaissance Knights Hospitaller. He spent his formative years in both Rome and Washington, DC. During the last sixteen years, Professor Cavaceppi has also taught Italian at Brown, UNC, and the Upward Bound Program. Additionally, he was the Assistant Director of the Brown-in-Bologna Program, coordinating the daily activities of study abroad students in Italy.

• Degrees

  PhD, Italian Literature, Brown University
  MA, Italian Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  BA, European History, University of Pennsylvania

• Languages Spoken:

  Fluent in English and Italian; reading knowledge of French and Latin