Dr. Giancarlo A. Traverso

Emeritus professor of Italian and French, Dr. Traverso taught for thirty years at SUNY New Paltz. Since his retirement in 1998, he continues to be engaged in the New Paltz community. He said, “When first retired I felt a separation from New Paltz but never an exclusion. In the sixteen years since, I can say New Paltz has shown the persuasive charms of a benevolent siren able if the call is heeded to transform you into an art connoisseur at the Dorsky Museum, or an attentive listener at a Distinguished Lecture Series, or a lover of a play or concert in McKenna and Studley Theaters, perhaps even into a donor.”

Giancarlo has many fond memories of New Paltz most occurring in the classroom. When asked for the fondest, he writes: "It is really an accumulation of teaching moments. Those occasions when a thought I expressed with conviction triggered a reaction on the students’ part, for or against, of similar conviction, leading to a dialog and subsequent reflection in students and myself.”