Graduate Spotlight

Dylan Gilbert is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in Italian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. After graduating first-gen from Middlebury College, he received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Italy where he taught at two high schools in the small coastal town of Policoro (MT), Basilicata. His current interests include French and Italian environmental histories, nuclear anxieties, and toxicity. He currently serves as the Academic Affairs Director for the Graduate Student Assembly.