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Gabriella Scarlatta was named interim chancellor of ÂÜÀòÉç-Dearborn in May 2025. She served as provost from 2022-2025 and interim provost from 2021-2022.

Chancellor Scarlatta has also served as an associate dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters, chair of the Department of Language, Culture, and Communication and co-chair of the Department of Humanities. She was a member of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters’ Executive and Curriculum Committees, and has served on the Faculty Senate. She served as a faculty representative on the Lecturers' Employee Organization university bargaining team in 2009, 2012 and 2017.

Chancellor Scarlatta teaches French literature and culture and has published several books and scholarly articles about the French and Italian Renaissance and early women writers. She joined the university in 1996 as an adjunct faculty member in the French Studies Department and became an assistant professor in 1998. She was promoted to professor of French, with tenure, in 2017. She has led three study abroad trips to France — most recently over Spring Break 2025 — where she teaches a course titled France’s Sites of Memory. 

Chancellor Scarlatta received the Women’s and Gender Studies Outstanding Research Award in 2004 and 2013 and was an honoree of ÂÜÀòÉç-Ann Arbor’s Council on Global Engagement in 2012. 

She received her BA and the maîtrise in modern languages from the Université de Savoie, Chambéry, France. She earned her MA in French and Italian Literatures and her PhD in Modern Languages from Wayne State University.