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May 2, 2016
Please help us congratulate Dr. Aileen Feng who was just promoted to Associate Professor of Italian with tenure!
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April 22, 2016
We are very happy to welcome Dr. M. Letizia Bellocchio to the Department of French and Italian! Dr. Bellocchio is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Wesleyan University. She received a Ph.D in Italian Studies at Rutgers University…
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April 15, 2016
Dr. Aileen Feng was awarded the College of Humanities Distinguished Teaching Award! Congratulations!
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Feb. 29, 2016
Dr. Aileen Feng was awarded $1,500 through the Provost Author support program for her forthcoming book: Writing Beloveds: Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender (U of Toronto Press).
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Jan. 28, 2016
Dr. Aileen A. Feng has been awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from Harvard University to spend AY 2016-2017 at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy (http://itatti.harvard.edu/). As an I…
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Dec. 17, 2015
Dr. Aileen A. Feng was elected to a five-year term on the Forum Executive Committee for Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature of the Modern Language Association (MLA).
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Nov. 12, 2015
A newspaper article was published about the invited talk Dr. Beppe Cavatorta gave at Colby College on November 3rd. Terrance O'Connor, Author of "Neo-avant-garde explored" in The Colby Echo says "The talk was ultimately a fascinating look at the…
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Nov. 6, 2015
Italian courses 101, 102, 201 and 202 will be offered during the Winter 2015 Session.
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Oct. 29, 2015
Invited Lecture, Colby College
Beppe Cavatorta
November 3rd
http://www.colby.edu/humannature/events/
Throughout the second half of the Twentieth Century, and especially in the 60s and 70s, Italian poets have attempted a radical renovation of the…
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Sept. 22, 2015
Despite the fact that Gaspara Stampa (1523?-1554) has been recognized as one of the greatest and most creative poets and musicians of the Italian Renaissance, scholarship on her work has been surprisingly scarce and uncoordinated. In recent years,…