Catherine M. Sama is a professor of Italian at the University of Rhode Island.
[1] In 2013 she was a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship.
She has edited the work and written a biography of the 18th-century Italian writer Elisabetta Caminèr Turra.
Sama earned her BA from the University of Virginia in 1985, where she majored in French and minored in Italian.
[3] She also serves as a board member of the URI Center for the Humanities.