Nancy E. Goldsmith has been teaching Italian and Humanities at NCSA since 1975, and served as the Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Academic Programs from 1988-2002. She earned a B.A. in Romance Languages from Boston University, an M.A. in Italian Literature from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in Italian Literature and Renaissance Studies from UNC, Chapel Hill.

In 1998, Dr. Goldsmith was a participant in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at the American Academy in Rome studying “Palace Culture in Baroque Rome” with Joseph Connors, then of Columbia University and now the director of Villa I Tatti in Florence, with a project on the early 17th-century Roman operas produced by the Barberini family; and at an NEH seminar at Princeton University in 2002 she studied “Opera: Reading, Interpretation and Staging” with Carolyn Abbate, concentrating on the influence of supertitle translations on the opera performance and audience.

In recent years Dr. Goldsmith has delivered papers on supertitle translation at Wake Forest University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and at the 2006 American Institute of Italian Studies conference in Genoa, Italy.

She has provided Italian diction assistance and translated additional or complete supertitles for the UNCSA Opera Theatre/Fletcher Opera Institute since 1998, for operas by Mozart, Pergolesi, Haydn, Bellini, and Donizetti. She has also written the supertitles for Un ballo in maschera, La bohème, and Così fan tutte for Winston-Salem’s Piedmont Opera. In 2007 she will provide the supertitles for Handel’s Radamisto for the Fletcher Opera Institute; and for Piedmont Opera Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata.