Cole Botta

Cole Botta


Areas of Study: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Interests:

Modern Italian literature, poetry, cinema, translation studies

Biography

Cole holds a B.A. in Italian from the University of Notre Dame. His undergraduate work culminated in an Honors Thesis, supervised by Professor Laura Banella, titled, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s Lessons of Victorian English Literature: A Translation and Study, for which he received the Joseph Italo Bosco Award for Excellence in Italian Studies.

Upon finishing his undergraduate degree, he worked as an Assistant Rector at the University of Notre Dame’s study abroad program in Rome.