Anna Villapiana

Anna Villapiana, graduated from the University of Calabria, Faculty of Arts, with a degree in Modern Literature. She was born in Italy and moved to Canada in 2003. She is currently an M. A. student in European Studies, and a Teaching Assistant in Classical Studies, at the University of Guelph. She is also, an Italian language tutor at St. Jerome’s University.

An active member of several cultural associations, as well as vice president of ComItEs Toronto, Anna’s greatest passion, beside teaching Italian, is poetry. She has published three volumes of poetry, written between 2000-2018, and a poetic study about the Italian diaspora, Narrarsi Altrove, which was translated into English and published in Italy last year.

Anna loves to travel. She is currently working on a project called “Il poeta e i luoghi”. For the past five years she has visited the towns where artists who have influenced her intellectual growth, were born and lived. She visited their homes as well as their graves searching for poetic inspiration. During these journeys she was fascinated by the story of an Italian poet, Antonia Pozzi, who committed suicide at the age of 26, in Milan, before WW2. This will be the topic of her new research project.