Umbra Alum is “World’s Best Father;” Featured on Today Show Fomorrow
Oct | 17
Tune into the Today Show on Thursday morning to watch former Umbra Institute student Dave Engledow, fall 2001, talk about his new, almost darkly whimsical calendar featuring himself with his young daughter, Alice Bee, in comically precarious situations. “His work... Read More
Umbra Professor Publishes in Prestigious Journal
Oct | 17
Umbra Institute Art History Professor Dr. Adrian Hoch’s paper on a Florentine tabernacle was published in “Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz,” one of the oldest and most prestigious art-historical journals in the world. Drawing from previously unpublished documents from... Read More
Umbra Alumna Works with Sister Cities during Fiera dei Morti
Oct | 17
The center streets of Perugia are vibrant with crowds of Perugini and tourists alike perusing the dozens of stands selling everything from gilded candlesticks to Slovakian sausages for the Fiera dei Morti, a five-day Italian celebration akin to the Day... Read More
Umbra Professor Earns Ph.D. from Harvard
Oct | 17
After teaching her last Italian class of the spring semester, Umbra Institute Professor Elgin Eckert boarded a plane to Cambridge, Mass., ready to defend “Cultural Memory in Contemporary Narrative: Andrea Camillieri’s Montalbano Series,” the dissertation she spent almost five years... Read More
Students Hunt Wild Truffles
Oct | 15
“Sole, dov’è il tartufo (Sun, where’s the truffle)?” called Matteo Bartolini after his dog. Picking their way carefully over the uneven ground, two Umbra Institute food studies classes followed Bartolini – and the truffle-hunting Sole – as the farmer showed... Read More
Umbra Professor Presents at Oxford University
Oct | 15
Convened annually since 1981, the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery is the oldest academic conference on food history. Each year academics interested in using food as a lens to examine modern (and ancient) societies gather at the prestigious St. Catherine's... Read More