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• B.A., Hunter College, City University of New York
• M.A., New York University
• Ph.D., New York University

Alexandra Coller received her B.A. in Romance Languages (French and Italian) from Hunter College (CUNY) and her doctoral degree from New York University. While at NYU, she offered courses on Dante, Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne for the Department of Italian Studies and for the Medieval and Renaissance Center. After teaching as a graduate student at Columbia and NYU, Prof. Coller has held visiting posts at SUNY-Stony Brook in the Department of Comparative and Literary Studies, at Dickinson College in the Department of French and Italian, and at Fairfield University in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. She joined Lehman College in August 2010 as an Assistant Professor where she currently teaches courses in Italian language, literature, and culture and sometimes contributes to Lehman’s core curriculum and comparative literature program. She has served as the head of the Italian Program since 2015 and is the faculty advisor for the Italian Club; in addition, she organizes and presents the Italian Film Series in an effort to ensure that the Italian program forms an integral part of campus life. She has served as a member of the College’s Arts and Humanities Curriculum Committee for several years and continues to serve as a member of the Arts Committee. Prof. Coller is Lehman College’s liaison at various cultural institutes around the metropolitan area: The Calandra Institute, NYU’s Casa Italiana, Columbia University’s Italian Academy, and the Italian Cultural Institute.