Teachers

Dr. Pasquale Verdicchio

Pasquale Verdicchio has taught film, literature, and cultural studies in the Department of Literature at the University of California San Diego since 1986. Author and translator, he has published in English the works of poets Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Atzeni, Alda Merini, and most recently Vivian Lamarque’s The Golden Man(Ekstasis Editions, 2016). His own poetry collections include The House is Past (Guernica, 2000) and This Nothing’s Place (Guernica, 2008). His Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature:The Denatured Wild was published in 2016 by Lexington. He is the recipient of the 2015 Muir Environmental Fellowship by Muir College, UCSD.