Dr. Chad Davidson
Professor of English / Director, UWG School of the Arts / Director, UWG Italy Study Abroad Italy Program
Chad Davidson, has spent a great deal of time both studying and living in Italy. A
competent speaker of Italian, he attended language school in Bologna and studied Italian
at the University of Perugia on a Rotary Ambassadorial Fellowship. Apart from directing
the UWG Italy program since 2012, he has also taught in three other study-abroad programs
since arriving at West Georgia in 2003 (Oldenburg, Germany, in 2005 and 2011; and
Montepulciano, Italy, in 2006).
Dr. Erin Lee Mock
Assistant Professor of English / Director, Film Studies Program
Erin Lee Mock has traveled much of Europe, but it's the Cannes Film Festival that
she considers her study abroad. This time next year, she'll have watched the entire
catalogues of Fellini, Antonioni, Bellocchio, and Garrone with the subtitles off.
Daniela Cittadoni
Owner and Director, Tasting Travel, Spoleto
Daniela Cittadoni is a licensed travel agency director who specializes in tours around
her home region of Umbria (just south of Tuscany). With ten years of experience in
the food and wine sector, and five years of professional tourism training, she also
helps with coordinating apartments and classroom space for us while in Spoleto as
well as leading tours of neighboring towns such as Assisi, Gubbio, Perugia, Orvieto,
and others.
Elisa Bassetti
Owner and Director, Artelingua Language School, Spoleto
Elisa Bassetti specialized in the teaching of Italian as a foreign language at the University for Foreigners in Siena. From 2008-2012, she also collaborated in an online program through the University for Foreigners in Perugia (from whom she holds a master’s degree in Italian language education). Since early 2012, she has directed her own language school, Artelingua, in her home town of Spoleto. She offers intensive Italian training to UWG students as well as managing other collaborative projects between her Italian students and our program.