College of Letters & Science
For the 2019-2020 academic year, Lauren Surovi (PhD candidate in Italian) has been named one of five Mellon Public Humanities Fellows at the UW–Madison Center for the Humanities. The Mellon Public Humanities Fellows are part of Engaging the Humanities, a multi-year project generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that creates opportunities for UW–Madison graduate students and …
Joshua Armstrong places recent French fiction into dialogue with some of today’s most influential theorists. ‘This book importantly addresses questions that are at the very heart of contemporary debates about our relationship to space and places in a world where borders and distance are being redefined by the forces of globalization.’ Jean-Xavier Ridon, University of …
Florence Vatan and Anne Vila have co-edited a special issue of Arts et Savoirs entitled “Entre savoir et fantasme: le corps et ses énigmes,” now available on-line: https://journals.openedition.org/aes/
Vlad Dima’s new book, The Beautiful Skin: Fantasy, Football, and Cinematic Bodies in Africa, is forthcoming in fall 2020, with the Michigan State University Press. Professor Dima will present his book at the “Africa at Noon” series on November 6, 2019 at noon in room 206 Ingraham Hall.
This 3 credit course, taught in French, will examine “Les maux et let mots: La médecine et la culture de Molière à Mesmer” / “Woes and Words: Medicine and Culture from Molière to Mesmer.” Using the tools of both cultural history and close literary analysis, this course will survey the interactions between literature and medicine in …
ITALIAN 365: Machiavelli and His World is a three credit course that introduces students to the major works of Machiavelli through the close reading of his writings in cultural and historical contexts. Offered jointly with Political Science, Integrated Liberal Studies, and Literature in Translation, the course aims to cultivate in students a broad understanding of Machiavelli’s …
Undergraduate and graduate students in this semester’s ITALIAN 450 class took on an interesting project: translate Carlo Goldoni’s comedic play La familia dell’antiquario, or The Antiquarian’s Family, into English. Inspired by an article about the UW–Madison professor who founded the original Wisconsin Dramatic Society, which produces lesser known and foreign plays, Professor Stefania Buccini developed the course for advanced …
Elizabeth Berglund Hall, Anne Theobald, and Mark Hall, all UW–Madison French Ph.D. alumni, are co-authors (with James Pfrehm, German) of TEXTURES, a new textbook for the transition from language to literature and culture-centered courses. The book just appeared with Yale University Press, and is available for purchase and use at https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300200324/textures. “Language proficiency emerges not solely …
In April 2018, the Department of French and Italian hosted Professor Yves Citton who presented the 2018 Hilldale Lecture in the Arts & Humanities entitled “The Humanities as Arts of Attention in the Age of Computational Mediarchy.” In his lecture, Citton analyzes how digital and computational technologies reconfigure our collective attentions. He presents the Humanities as arts …