Cinzia Donatelli Noble was born in 1954 in Pescara, Italy. She graduated Cum Laude with a Doctorate degree in Classical Letters in 1979. She began her teaching career at BYU in 1980, has taught courses in Italian literature, culture, phonetics, grammar and composition, and has received three awards: as Outstanding Teacher in 1985, as Teacher of the Year in 1997, and the prestigious Karl G. Maeser Professional Faculty Excellence Award in 2007. She served as the Chair of the Department of French and Italian in 1998-2004. Prof. Noble’s scholarly research focuses on contemporary Italian Literature and Italian Phonetics. She has written four books: one on Cesare Pavese and American Literature, a second on pronunciation and phonetics of Italian, a third on Italian grammar, and an annotated anthology of modern Italian Poetry. She has also translated from Italian into English, Un anno particolare by Luciano De Angelis, with the title: That one peculiar year. Several of her articles and presentations also include the Italian critic and writer Umberto Eco, Piero Chiara, Cesare Pavese, Italian language and phonetics. In her spare time, Prof. Noble likes to snow-ski, bicycle, read, and travel.