Italian Literary & Cultural Studies

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Milano bookstore

Italian studies are central to the development of European cultures, written traditions, and artistic movements, beginning with the significance of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio and their legacies in the Mediterranean world.  Research expertise in the department spans Italian literary genres, periods, art, and cinema to the present day with focuses on contemporary Italy, aesthetics and poetics, the body, women writers, pedagogy, and the philosophy of education.

Photo source: Libreria Bocca in Milan taken from https://www.iviaggididante.com/2018/08/le-librerie-di-milano-da-visitare.html

Personnel

Paola De Santo

Paola De Santo

Associate Professor of Italian

Early modern Italy, Italian colonialism, Gender Studies

Steven Grossvogel

Steven Grossvogel

Associate Professor of Italian

Medieval Italian literature, Italian cinema and theater.

Peterson portrait August 2024

Thomas E. Peterson

Professor of Italian

Italian lyric and epic poetry, modern and contemporary fiction, women writers, literary theory, film studies, philosophy of education

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