Donato Santeramo has been named the next director of the Middlebury Italian School. He began his new position on September 1, succeeding Antonio Vitti, who had served as director of the program since 2006.

Santeramo is currently a professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He earned a degree in literature and philosophy from the University of Rome La Sapienza and received his PhD in Italian studies from the University of Toronto. His research has been primarily in the areas of 20th-century Italian theater and literature, literary studies, and semiotics. Santeramo has visited and taught at the Italian School intermittently for the last 25 years.