On November 18th, the Italian Studies program and its community gathered for the 2025 Elizabeth Mazzocco Memorial Lecture. This lecture is held in honor of Elizabeth Mazzocco, the former director of the Five Colleges Center for the Study of World Languages as well as Professor of Italian at UMass from 1990 until her death in 2014.
In the first lecture in this series since the pandemic, her memory was honored with a lecture grounded in the passion she had for teaching Italian studies as well as her research interests in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This year’s speaker, Dr. Guyda Armstrong, is the Director of the John Rylands Research Institute and Library and Professor of Italian at the University of Manchester (UK).
