Fulvia Musti
Fulvia Musti, born in Rome, Italy, is an Associate Teaching Professor of Italian and a full-time faculty member at Georgetown University.
She holds a baccalaureate degree in English and a Master’s Degree in Applied Linguistics with a focus on Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language. Following her formal training in incorporating drama techniques into language teaching, which she completed in 1986, she founded and directed the Language Through Drama School in San Francisco, California.
In 2009, she created and directed a documentary on oral cancer patients for a cancer fundraising event at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, DC. The documentary was later archived by the Library of Congress. In 2012, she earned a Master's degree in Museum Studies from Georgetown University, and in 2023, she completed her Ph.D. in Liberal Studies from Georgetown University. Her research interests include gender and class in early 15th-century Florentine culture and society.
Professor Musti has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching and has been the recipient of several grants from the Center of New Designs in Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown University to redesign Italian language and culture courses.