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. […]
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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 […]
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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) […]
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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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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 […]
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A Cognitive Scientific Approach to Italian Cinema, Sep. 25th Gilman 479 5.15 PM
This presentation was inspired by recent findings in neuro-aesthetics—the study of the impact of the arts on the nervous system. Cinema has been found to have a particularly strong effect […]
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Special MLN Italian 2021: Elena Ferrante in a Global Context
The board of MLN Italian is delighted to announce that its 2021 issue will be devoted to the work of Elena Ferrante. Guest editors: Professors Tiziana De Rogatis, Stiliana Milkova, and Katrin […]
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Professor Di Bianco Awarded the Lauro De Bosis Postdoctoral Fellowship
Professor Laura Di Bianco was awarded the “Lauro De Bosis Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Italian Civilization” at Harvard University, for spring 2020, for her research project Crumbling Beauty. […]