Luca Trazzi, MA
Luca Trazzi is currently serving as resident director of the European Studies Program for Dickinson College in Bologna, Italy. His undergraduate and graduate degrees are in foreign languages, literature, and linguistics from Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. He studied and trained in Italy, France, and in the United States, and holds a second master’s degree in food studies, history and culture of food. He is a senior lecturer at Dickinson College where, for over a decade, he has taught elementary, intermediate, and writing-in-the-discipline Italian courses on Dickinson’s campus in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. His current research focuses on gastrodiplomacy, and as a contributing faculty member to the Food Studies Certificate, he has chaired the program and taught “Introduction to Food Studies,” the certificate’s gateway course. He created a short-term program abroad for intermediate Italian focused on sustainability, urban agriculture, and urban markets in Italy. He served as faculty host for a Dickinson Alumni Global Adventure trip to discover the flavors of Central Italy. He developed and led the summer program in Food Studies titled “Bioregions and Food Cultures of Italy,” in which participants study local food systems through the holistic concepts of bioregion and terroir.
Education
- BA, Foreign Languages and Literature, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy
- MA, Language, Society, and Communication, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy
- MA, History and Culture of Food, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy
