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Roberta Kaye Waldbaum

Roberta Kaye WaldbaumRoberta Kaye WaldbaumRoberta Kaye Waldbaum

Author, Professor, Italophile

Roberta Kaye Waldbaum

Roberta Kaye WaldbaumRoberta Kaye WaldbaumRoberta Kaye Waldbaum

Author, Professor, Italophile

The Color of Dreams: An Umbrian Tale

In 19th century Europe, Claire Brophy is born into a lower middle-class family where the traditional life as dutiful wife and mother is prescribed. But Claire’s rare intellectual and aesthetic sensibilities, combined with an unexpected change in her family’s fortune, allow her to rise well beyond her station. Claire marries and settles down to a life of presumed normalcy. Yet, all is not well, and she begins a spiral downward into a state of deep depression, verging on madness.


Written as a series of diary entries set under stunning splashes of the ever-changing colors of the clouds, Claire begins to reminisce and dream in color as the story of her youth, marriage, infidelity, and travels are painted through a series of intricate flashbacks and flashforwards.


The reader travels with Claire on a physical and emotional southward and downward journey that probes deeply into her deep-seated desires and troubled psyche. Observing each and every shape and color of her natural surroundings, she takes the reader along with her on a spiritual, sensual, and magical quest.


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The Color of Dreams: An Umbrian Tale may be used in the classroom to highlight Italian culture from a woman's perspective at the end of the 19th century

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Roberta Kaye Waldbaum was born and raised in Denver, Colorado and her heart resides in her home in the Umbrian hills. A passionate Italophile, The Color of Dreams: An Umbrian Tale is her debut novel. A passionate and lifelong supporter of Italian culture and heritage, she is the 2021 recipient of the prestigious Donne di Merito award from the Dante Alighieri Society of Denver.

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A professor of Italian at the University of Denver, Colorado, she is the Anna Maglione-Sie endowed professor in Italian Culture and teaching professor of Italian in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures. She teaches Italian language, literature, cinema and culture in the Italian Program and in the common curriculum.


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Awards and Areas of Interest

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The recipient of two university teaching awards, she has authored book chapters, translations, memoirs, and journals in Italian education,  civic engagement, and cinema. An Italian film consultant, she advises the Denver Film Festival and Italian directors on the selection of films for the annual Showcase on Italian Cinema.  

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