Catherine Freddo holds a B.A. in Italian language and literature from Smith College and a M.A. in History of the Italian language from Middlebury College. She is currently a Ph.D. […]
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Italian Program: News
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Italian Graduate Victoria Fanti Awarded Alexander Grass Fellowship
Doctoral candidate in Italian Victoria Fanti was awarded the “Alexander Glass Humanity Institute Graduate Research Fellowship” for spring 2020, for her dissertation project The New Killer Queens of Italian Renaissance Tragedy. […]
Italian Program:
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Where are they now? News from our grads
Please join us in congratulating our alumnus Francesco Brenna, who received his PhD in spring 2019 and joined the Department of French and Italian at Indiana University Bloomington this fall […]
Italian Program:
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Affective Colonialism in 1930s Libya – Gilman 108, 5.15 PM- Nov. 19th
Italo Balbo is globally known as an aviation pioneer, but he was also the governor of Libya from 1934 to 1940. Graziella Parati is interested in analyzing a particular document […]
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Welcome to the Italian Section
We are happy to welcome two new graduate students in our section. Silvia Raimondi comes from the most beautiful, magnificent city in the world, Rome. She earned a laurea (2015) […]
French Program:
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paris/algiers 1969: declarations of freedom by the black american avant-garde
At the close of the 1960s leading black American musicians associated with the “free jazz” scenes of New York and Chicago left for Paris. Weary of a poisoned U.S. political […]
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Calvino and the Catacoustic – Nov. 5th – Gilman 479 – 5.15 PM
Calvino and the Catacoustic: An ‘Echo-logical’ Reading Let us consider Calvino’s Invisible Cities as a sound that has produced a vast number of echoes in the over 50 years since its […]
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Dissertation in Progress – Tuesday Oct. 22 – Gilman 479 – 5.15 PM
Join two promising PhD candidates in discussing excerpts of their dissertation. Questions are welcome!
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Aesthetic Theories in Yiddish Conference, Nov 11. – Nov. 12
The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Jewish Studies Program presents the 15th Lavy Colloquium: Aesthetic Theories in Yiddish Nov 11. – Nov. 12. All sessions will take place at the […]
Italian Program:
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Reading and Illustrating the Divine Comedy, Oct. 3rd – Gilman 479 – 5.15 PM
The copy of the Divine Comedy with the commentary by Cristoforo Landino, published in Venice by Pietro Piasi in 1491 and preserved in the House of Dante in Rome, presents […]