Thomas Simpson

Thomas Simpson, Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Italian, Ph.D. U. of Chicago. Language Coordinator. Teaches language and literature/culture courses. 200-level courses include student-created Futurist Performance and teleromanzo.

In 2005 he brought Teatro delle Albe to Chicago for a residency that included performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Among recent translations: Antonio Fava, The Comic Mask in the Commedia dell'Arte (NU Press, 2007); PP Pasolini, "Manifesto for a New Theatre" and "Affabulazione" (PAJ, Winter 2007); Ermanno Rea, Mystery in Naples (Guernica, 2003). In 2004 he organized a campus wide teach-in dedicated to the Abu Ghraib scandal.

He is Associate Director of the WCAS Drama Major

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