Denise DeNezzo-Asfar, holds an M.A. from Brown University in Teaching, with CT teaching certificates in foreign-language instruction; and an honors B.A. in Romance Languages and Literature from Princeton University, with a minor in Classics.

On the Arts faculty of Westminster Choir College, she taught undergraduate and graduate courses—in foreign-languages, reading and translation, and dramatic literature. At the Princeton Adult School, she has taught over 30 new courses that she developed, including several each in her series of Italian for Opera-Lovers, French for Opera-Lovers, foreign-language instruction—from beginning to upper-intermediate levels—and Shakespearean Theater.

As language-assessment specialist at ETS (Educational Testing Service), she contributed to testing programs for students and teachers—in French, Latin, Italian, English, Theater, and Music (including AP, SAT-II, GRE, Praxis, and state-wide K-12 assessments); and directed foreign-language and English studio-recordings of professional voice-over actors for multi-media testing programs.

She has performed principal rôles in amateur theater—including a French production of Molière’s Tartuffe, rôles in several Shakespeare plays, and in productions of the WNYE Radio Workshop. Her publications and essays include: Teachers’ materials and manuals for foreign-language textbooks (Harcourt, Brace); Princeton University’s Alden Prize essay, on Albert Camus’s Noces; theater and music articles for local newspapers (The Princeton Packet’s Time Off, Princeton University’s Daily Princetonian); and a New Yorker-sponsored short story contest-winner, “A Case of La Grande Dame.” Her prize-winning Opera Quiz questions have been broadcast nationally as part of the Metropolitan Opera intermission feature.