Dr. Stella Plutino-Calabrese
Director, Global Education Office
Originally from Italy, Dr. Stella Plutino-Calabrese is the Director of Global Education at St. John Fisher University, and has been active in the field of International Education for more than two decades. She is a faculty member in the Modern Languages Department, teaching courses in the Core curriculum in the Learning Community and Honor’s program and courses focused on immigration, the Italian American experience, women’s studies and the Holocaust.
She is a member of NAFSA, and serves as a Fulbright Program Adviser and the U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship.
Stella was awarded with Elena Cornaro International Award as Educator of the Year; the Women of the Year Award from Italian American Community Center; the Educator of the Year Award by the Order Sons of Italy in America; and Service to the Community Award from the Office of the Consulate of Italy of New York. She is also the recipient of the Richmond University Fellowship in Rome, Italy, conducting research during summer 2019.
Stella earned a bachelor’s degree in economics with a minor in Spanish, and a certificate in public analysis, from the University of Rochester, a master’s degree in information technology from Rochester Institute of Technology, and holds a doctorate in modern languages in Italian and Spanish from Middlebury College. Her thesis is on Italian writer and holocaust survivor Primo Levi and Italian internment camps. Stella enjoys time with her husband and three children, cooking, skiing and traveling.