| AS.210.151 (01) |
Italian Elements I |
WF 4:30PM - 5:45PM |
Franzini, Martina |
Gilman 377 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: This course sequence (AS.210.151 and AS.210.152) is an introduction to Italian for students with no previous exposure to the language. By the end of the academic year, you will be able to meet basic needs in an Italian-only environment. Examples include introducing yourself, asking for and giving directions, ordering a meal at a restaurant, describing and asking information about places and people, and engaging in a simple phone conversation. Advanced speakers of other Romance languages (e.g. French, Spanish, Portuguese) are encouraged to enroll in AS.210.175 (Accelerated Italian for Speakers of Other Romance Languages I)
- Credits: 4.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 5/15
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.152 (01) |
Italian Elements II |
MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM |
Caleo, Giulia |
Gilman 277 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: Course helps students develop basic listening, reading, writing, speaking, and interactional skills in Italian. The content of the course is highly communicative, and students are constantly presented with real-life, task-based activities. Course adopts a continuous assessment system (no mid-term and no final).
- Credits: 4.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 9/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.152 (02) |
Italian Elements II |
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM |
Staff |
Gilman 77 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: Course helps students develop basic listening, reading, writing, speaking, and interactional skills in Italian. The content of the course is highly communicative, and students are constantly presented with real-life, task-based activities. Course adopts a continuous assessment system (no mid-term and no final).
- Credits: 4.00
- Status: Canceled
- Seats Available: 12/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.176 (01) |
Accelerated Italian for Advanced Speakers of other Romance Languages II |
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM |
Zannirato, Alessandro |
Greenhouse 113 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: This is the second part of an elementary Italian language course sequence designed for advanced speakers of other romance languages (e.g. French, Spanish, Portuguese). This course will cover the same material as the regular-track Intermediate Italian I and II courses. Students completing this course with a grade of B or higher will be allowed to register for AS210.351 (Advanced Italian I) in the Fall term. Pre-requisite: Completion of AS.210.175 with a grade of B or higher, or Italian Language Program Director permission.
- Credits: 4.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 5/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.252 (01) |
Intermediate Italian II |
MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM |
Proietti, Leonardo |
Gilman 381 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: Taught in Italian. Course continues building on the four essential skills for communication presented in Intermediate Italian I (listening, speaking, reading, writing) on topics of increasing complexity. Course adopts a continuous assessment system.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 7/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.352 (01) |
Advanced Italian II |
MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM |
Proietti, Leonardo |
Gilman 479 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: Course presents a systematic introduction to a variety of complex cultural and historical topics related to present-day Italy, emphasizing intercultural comparisons, interdisciplinarity, and encouraging a personal exploration of such topics. Course adopts a continuous assessment system (no mid-term and no final).
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 5/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.211.454 (01) |
The Art, Craft, and Science of Translation |
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM |
Zannirato, Alessandro |
Gilman 313 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: This course is an introduction to the growing field of Translation Studies. Broadly speaking, the translation process involves three major phases: (1) ‘understanding’ what someone else has written; (2) exploring the linguistic/cultural tools available (or not) in another language to convey the original meaning; and (3) taking responsibility for one’s translation choices. What does it mean to ‘understand’ a text? Is it ever possible to find an ‘equivalent’ in another language? Can the translation process ever be objective, and what role, if any, does the translator’s voice play? What practical tools are available to facilitate the translation process? Drawing from interdisciplinary theories and approaches to translation, this course will attempt to reflect on these questions, and provide an opportunity for some hands-on translation practice. Language pre-requisite: Completion of, or concurrent enrollment in Advanced French I (AS.210.301), Advanced Italian I (AS.210.351), Advanced Spanish I (AS.210.311), or instructor permission.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 3/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.363 (01) |
Italy Beyond Italy: Languages, Affects, and Geographies in Modern Literature |
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM |
Cerreti, Marta |
Gilman 77 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: What is Italian in a globalized world? How do geography, language, and migration shape the stories we tell and the ways we read them? This course offers an introduction to twentieth- and twenty-first-century Italian literature through a transnational lens. We will explore how Italian identity is constructed, challenged, and redefined through migration, multilingualism, and political contestation. Focusing on authors who write about Italy from afar or examine the broader world from within its borders, we will reconsider Italy not as a fixed geographic entity, but as a fluid concept shaped by global entanglements and affects. Readings will include novels about dictatorship, contemporary diasporic family memoirs, postcolonial narratives of identity and migration, and graphic novels that link the streets of Rome to global conflict zones. We will examine how the Italian language becomes a site of expression and transformation—adopted, reshaped, and reimagined by writers working across borders and traditions. Authors include Dino Campana, Italo Calvino, Antonio Tabucchi, Melania Mazzucco, Jhumpa Lahiri, Claudia Durastanti, Igiaba Scego, Helena Janeczek, Amara Lakhous, and Zerocalcare. Throughout the semester, students will engage with key themes including the history of fascism and anti-fascism, colonial legacies, modern migration, and the resurgence of nationalism in Europe while critically rethinking what constitutes “Italian literature” today.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 8/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.417 (01) |
Galileo in Dialogue: Science, Literature, and Gender in Early Modern Italy |
T 3:00PM - 5:30PM |
Ray, Meredith |
Maryland 202 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: This seminar investigates the contours of scientific dialogue in early modern Italy through the figure of Galileo Galilei and his intellectual milieu. We will examine how literary culture shaped the circulation of new ideas, and how women—whether as poets, patrons, or correspondents—participated in the exploration and communication of scientific knowledge. Readings include selections from Galileo’s scientific writings and extensive correspondence, alongside literary and artistic texts that illuminate the cultural contexts in which his ideas were produced, debated, and disseminated. By situating Galileo within academic, courtly, and cultural networks, the seminar considers the reciprocal relationship between scientific inquiry and literary production, with particular attention to how gender shaped access to, and participation in, intellectual life.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 4/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.647 (01) |
Galileo in Dialogue: Science, Literature, and Gender in Early Modern Italy |
T 3:00PM - 5:30PM |
Ray, Meredith |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: This seminar investigates the contours of scientific dialogue in early modern Italy through the figure of Galileo Galilei and his intellectual milieu. We will examine how literary culture shaped the circulation of new ideas, and how women—whether as poets, patrons, or correspondents—participated in the exploration and communication of scientific knowledge. Readings include selections from Galileo’s scientific writings and extensive correspondence, alongside literary and artistic texts that illuminate the cultural contexts in which his ideas were produced, debated, and disseminated. By situating Galileo within academic, courtly, and cultural networks, the seminar considers the reciprocal relationship between scientific inquiry and literary production, with particular attention to how gender shaped access to, and participation in, intellectual life. This course differs from AS.214.417 in that enrolled graduate students are assigned a series of additional readings weekly, as well as a research presentation and final research paper of 20-25 pages. Their grade is based on preparation/participation and the final paper. (The 600 section does not do weekly writing exercises, podcast, midterm essay and some other work assigned in the undergraduate section).
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Canceled
- Seats Available: 3/3
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.682 (01) |
The Search for Tranquility of Mind |
M 3:00PM - 5:00PM |
Saiber, Arielle |
Gilman 478 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: How do we find a sense of balance in times of grief, fear, and strife? How have humans achieved calm during inner or outer turbulence? This course looks to the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance, when the rediscovery of classical thought bursts onto the scene and philosophers, writers, visual artists, and theologians rethink the tools at their disposal for living through life’s challenges. We will study what premodern Italian thinkers drew from philosophical schools such as Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Skepticism, and how they combined those ideas with a Christian worldview to produce new methods of cultivating tranquility of mind. Among the topics we will cover are theories of ataraxia, the debate between the active and contemplative life, what constitutes a “good” life, and the search for harmony. We will read works by Boethius, Catherina of Siena, Petrarch, Bruni, Alberti, Valla, and Ficino, among others. (Some knowledge of a Romance Language or Latin helpful, but not required.)
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 8/15
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.850 (01) |
Professional Training - Italian |
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Di Bianco, Laura; Zannirato, Alessandro |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: Training for professional academic purposes.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 14/15
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.861 (01) |
Italian Independent Stdy |
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Di Bianco, Laura |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor. Students are expected to meet regularly with the mentor and to write a lengthy paper, or several short papers, on the chosen topic.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.861 (02) |
Italian Independent Stdy |
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Saiber, Arielle |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor. Students are expected to meet regularly with the mentor and to write a lengthy paper, or several short papers, on the chosen topic.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 4/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.861 (03) |
Italian Independent Stdy |
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Stephens, Walter E |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor. Students are expected to meet regularly with the mentor and to write a lengthy paper, or several short papers, on the chosen topic.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.862 (01) |
Italian Dissertation Res |
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Di Bianco, Laura |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.
- Credits: 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 4/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.862 (02) |
Italian Dissertation Res |
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Stephens, Walter E |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.
- Credits: 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.862 (03) |
Italian Dissertation Res |
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Saiber, Arielle |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.
- Credits: 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 4/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.863 (01) |
Italian Proposal Prep |
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Di Bianco, Laura |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: This course is for graduate students to prepare their prospectus and one chapter of their dissertation.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.863 (02) |
Italian Proposal Prep |
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Stephens, Walter E |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: This course is for graduate students to prepare their prospectus and one chapter of their dissertation.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.863 (03) |
Italian Proposal Prep |
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Saiber, Arielle |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: This course is for graduate students to prepare their prospectus and one chapter of their dissertation.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 4/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.001.191 (01) |
FYS: How to be a Renaissance Person |
M 12:00PM - 2:30PM |
Saiber, Arielle |
Shaffer 305 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: How do we decide what it means to “live well”? Who defines virtue, success, health, power, or goodness? The Italian Renaissance had answers—sometimes practical, sometimes poetic, sometimes strange. This First-Year Seminar explores a large sampling of advice from famed thinkers such as Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci, alongside a book of manners, a cookbook, a manual on sword fighting, magic potions, longevity diets, feminist call-to-arms, and more.
Through close reading and discussion, students examine how these historic examples of self-help work: What values do they promote? What fears do they reveal? What kind of person do they imagine we should become? We will consider how Renaissance advice compares to the guidance that surrounds us today.
Through visits to museums and workshops on calligraphy, fencing, book-binding, writing letters of appreciation, oratory, and more, students will learn about the Italian Renaissance while also unpacking the persuasive devices that shape advice across time. By studying what authors from the past thought would help us “be better,” students develop critical tools to examine what is at stake whenever someone offers help—or whenever we seek it.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 12/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.151 (01) |
Italian Elements I |
MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM |
Staff |
Gilman 479 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: This course sequence (AS.210.151 and AS.210.152) is an introduction to Italian for students with no previous exposure to the language. By the end of the academic year, you will be able to meet basic needs in an Italian-only environment. Examples include introducing yourself, asking for and giving directions, ordering a meal at a restaurant, describing and asking information about places and people, and engaging in a simple phone conversation. Advanced speakers of other Romance languages (e.g. French, Spanish, Portuguese) are encouraged to enroll in AS.210.175 (Accelerated Italian for Speakers of Other Romance Languages I)
- Credits: 4.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 6/15
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.151 (02) |
Italian Elements I |
MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM |
Staff |
Gilman 381 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: This course sequence (AS.210.151 and AS.210.152) is an introduction to Italian for students with no previous exposure to the language. By the end of the academic year, you will be able to meet basic needs in an Italian-only environment. Examples include introducing yourself, asking for and giving directions, ordering a meal at a restaurant, describing and asking information about places and people, and engaging in a simple phone conversation. Advanced speakers of other Romance languages (e.g. French, Spanish, Portuguese) are encouraged to enroll in AS.210.175 (Accelerated Italian for Speakers of Other Romance Languages I)
- Credits: 4.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 6/15
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.151 (03) |
Italian Elements I |
WF 4:30PM - 5:45PM |
Staff |
Krieger 307 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: This course sequence (AS.210.151 and AS.210.152) is an introduction to Italian for students with no previous exposure to the language. By the end of the academic year, you will be able to meet basic needs in an Italian-only environment. Examples include introducing yourself, asking for and giving directions, ordering a meal at a restaurant, describing and asking information about places and people, and engaging in a simple phone conversation. Advanced speakers of other Romance languages (e.g. French, Spanish, Portuguese) are encouraged to enroll in AS.210.175 (Accelerated Italian for Speakers of Other Romance Languages I)
- Credits: 4.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 14/14
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.152 (01) |
Italian Elements II |
WF 3:00PM - 4:15PM |
Staff |
Latrobe 120 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: Course helps students develop basic listening, reading, writing, speaking, and interactional skills in Italian. The content of the course is highly communicative, and students are constantly presented with real-life, task-based activities. Course adopts a continuous assessment system (no mid-term and no final). May not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory. No previous knowledge of Italian is required.
- Credits: 4.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 14/15
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.175 (01) |
Accelerated Italian for Advanced Speakers of other Romance Languages |
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM |
Zannirato, Alessandro |
Bloomberg 178 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: This course sequence (AS210.175 and AS210.176) is designed for advanced speakers of other Romance languages (e.g. French, Spanish, Portuguese), and will cover the same material as the regular-track Italian Elements I and II (AS.210.151 and AS.210.152) and Intermediate Italian I and II (AS.210.251 and AS.210.252) courses. Upon successful completion of both semesters, students will be allowed to register for AS.210.351 (Advanced Italian I).
- Credits: 4.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 8/15
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.251 (01) |
Intermediate Italian I |
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM |
Staff |
Gilman 186 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: This course sequence (AS.210.251 and AS.210.252) will reinforce your ability to engage in complex daily tasks in Italian, and will introduce you to more formal academic and real-world topics. By the end of the academic year, you will be able to write a strong résumé and cover letter in the European format, sit a job interview in Italian, and participate in debates on simple topics. You will also read five engaging short stories, watch several Italian films, and discuss topics such as emigration and immigration from/to Italy, the protection of the environment, and the history of the Italian South.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 15/17
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.351 (01) |
Advanced Italian I |
MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM |
Staff |
Gilman 479 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: This highly interactive course focuses on complex historical and contemporary themes, and is ideal, among others, for students who are specializing in international studies, medicine, psychology, and cognitive science. Students will analyze authentic texts and audiovisual materials on topics including the history of the Sicilian mafia, mental health and the deinstitutionalization movement in Italy, Europe and Italy in the 1960s-1980s, the role of curiosity and amazement in scientific discovery and art, and intercultural differences around hilarity. Taught in Italian.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 7/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.610 (01) |
The Nonhumans of Renaissance Humanism |
T 3:30PM - 5:30PM |
Saiber, Arielle |
Gilman 479 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: This course is an exploration of the notions of the human that emerge when interrogating pre-modern Italian literary constructions of nonhuman entities (water, earth, flora, fauna, objects, buildings, cities, automata, demons, angels, gods, and God). We will read work by authors such as Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Pico, Alberti, Leonardo, Sannazaro, Baldi, and Della Porta, as well as parts of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, and selections from bestiaries, herbaria, and books of emblems. Accompanying these readings are recent studies in critical theory on posthumanism and transhumanism, animal studies, ecocriticism, and phenomenology.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 6/10
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.626 (01) |
Sacred/Subversive: Gender, Authority, and Devotion in Early Modern Italy |
T 1:00PM - 3:00PM |
Ray, Meredith |
Gilman 479 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: This graduate seminar examines how women in early modern Italy used devotional language to negotiate questions of literary voice and authority, community and critique. We will approach devotion not only as a spiritual practice informed by the developments of the sixteenth- and seventeenth century (the intensified religious fervor of the Counter Reformation, the reassessment of female Biblical figures, the imposition of strict enclosure on convents), but as a framework through which to shape intellectual agency, claim authority, experiment with hybrid genres, and resist gendered cultural constraints. Close readings include a range of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women writers, with particular attention to Arcangela Tarabotti, whose work allows for powerful reflection on the tensions between piety, authority, and dissent. As we consider how the literary strategies of these early modern women maneuver between the sacred and subversive, we will draw on theoretical readings on voice, enclosure, and literary authority. Some familiarity with Italian is recommended.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 8/10
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.850 (01) |
Professional Training - Italian |
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Zannirato, Alessandro |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: Training for professional academic purposes.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 10/10
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.861 (02) |
Italian Independent Study |
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Saiber, Arielle |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor. Students are expected to meet regularly with the mentor and to write a lengthy paper, or several short papers, on the chosen topic.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 11/11
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.862 (01) |
Italian Dissertation Research |
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Di Bianco, Laura |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.
- Credits: 9.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 10/11
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.214.863 (03) |
Italian Proposal Preparation |
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Saiber, Arielle |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: This course is for graduate students to prepare their prospectus and one chapter of their dissertation.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 11/11
- Tags: n/a
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