Dr. Aileen A. Feng awarded Harvard I Tatti Fellowship

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 Tatti Fellow,  Dr. Feng will work on her second monograph titled Feminism's First Paradox: Female Misogyny and Homosociality in Early Modern Italy and France. 

Annual All-Night Reading of Dante's Inferno

When
9 p.m. – 10 a.m., March 24 – 25, 2016
Where
St. Phillips in the Hills Episcopal Church

Mark your calendars: St. Philips in the Hills Episcopal Church is planning its eighth annual All-Night Reading of Dante's "Inferno" as part of its Maundy Thursday observance, 24-25 March 2016. If you're interested in being a reader, please contact Prof. Fabian Alfie. See the flier below for more details.

 

Newspaper Article Published on Dr. Beppe Cavatorta's Invited Talk

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 movement in this context, as well as being a movement that became international."

Read the full article in The Colby Echo here: http://colbyechonews.com/neo-avant-garde-explored/

Human Rights Borders and Barriers Symposium

When
6 – 10 p.m., Feb. 22 – 24, 2016
Where
UA Poetry Center, Dorothy Rubel Room 1508 E. Helen Street

The University of Arizona's Departments of Africana Studies and French and Italian, along with the College of Humanities present: Human Rights, Borders + Barriers Symposium.

Following Grandmaster Flash’s famous verse “Don’t push me cause I’m close to the edge,” this symposium features university and guest scholars who will speak on such topics as human rights, migration flows, terrorism, education, and freedom of expression. Lectures and discussions will focus on contemporary national and transnational issues such as ferguson, paris attacks, and the global refugee crisis.

Information | hrbbs.arizona.edu or (520) 621-5665

 

Dr. Cavatorta to Give Invited Lecture at Colby College

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 literary institutions and conventions they had received from tradition. Their efforts gave birth to what critics have called the neo-avantgarde. What had begun as an effort to reconsider literature, soon turned into a political experiment aimed at re-writing the world itself. These intellectuals formulated a sharp criticism of traditional power structures and the excesses of capitalism by unmasking its linguistic strategies. This new kind of “realism” did not aim at describing the world but rather at changing it. This lecture will reconstruct the interesting path these writers followed, looking at the way in which the natural world is presented in their poems.

Cavatorta is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Arizona, Tucson. His research interests are varied, with scholarly publications on Renaissance authors such as Machiavelli, Savonarola, and Tasso as well as contemporary writers like Alberto Savinio, Antonio Delfini, Tahar Lamri and Adriano Spatola. Among his other interests are Italian Futurism, the neo-avant-garde of Sixties, and the Partisan War as depicted in literature and film. His essays have appeared in several journals.

Dr. Aileen A. Feng co-edits a new volume of criticism

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, critical attention towards her work has increased, but until now there have been no anthologies dedicated solely to Stampa. Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry aims to set a foundation for further Stampa studies by accounting for her contributions to literature, music history, gender studies, the history of ideas, philosophy, and other areas of critical thought.

This volume brings together an international group of interdisciplinary scholars who employ varied methodologies to explore multiple aspects of Stampa’s work in dialogue with the most recent scholarship in the field. The chapters emphasize the many ways in which Stampa’s poetry engages with multiple cultural movements of early modern Italy and Europe, including: Ficinian and Renaissance Neoplatonism, male-authored writing about women, Longinus’s theory of the sublime, the formation of writing communities, the rediscovery of Aristotle’s writings, and the reimagined relation between human and natural worlds.

Taken as a whole, this volume presents a rich introduction to, and interdisciplinary investigation of, Gaspara Stampa’s impact on Renaissance culture.

http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&isbn=978147242…​

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