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Office: 3141 JFSB

Phone: 422-2016

Email: ilona_klein@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses Ital 340, Intro to Italian Literature
Ital 460, Dante's Divine Comedy
Ital 443, Italian Romantic Literature
Ital 442, Italian Baroque Literature
Ital 420, Italian Culture, Lit. & History from the origins to the Renaissance

Biography: Recipient of two prestigious BYU teaching awards: - The Alcuin Fellowship in General Education (2002-2005) - The Karl G. Maeser General Education Professorship (2006-2009). Sample of publications: “Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers: An Epistolary Novel, or A Stage Drama in Disguise?,” European Romantic Review 7 (1997), 134-158. Reprinted in Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, ed. Harold Bloom (Broomall, PA: Chelsea House, 2003): 189-213. “Primo Levi: The Drowned, the Saved and the "Grey Zone";,” Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual, 7 (1990), 77-89. “Primo Levi,” Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB): Italian Novelists Since World War II, ed. Augustus Pallotta; vol. 177 (Detroit-Washington DC-London: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1997): 162-170.

Degrees: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986
MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982
Laurea in Lettere (Italian Doctorate, Summa cum Laude), Università La Sapienza, Rome - Italy, 1981

Interests: Italian, British, and German Romantic Literature; Literature and Representations of the Shoah [Holocaust].

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