Year: 2025

Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Italian Workmen’s Club Scholarships!   Cecelia Maillis – Italian, History, and Psychology Major       Erin Hayes – Italian and Consumer Behavior and Marketplace Studies Major   The Italian Workmen’s Club (IWC) is a men’s club of Italian heritage. The IWC has been in existence since 1912 …

The Memorial Resolution for Emeritus Professor Robert Rodini will be presented at the UW Faculty Senate on Monday, November 3, 2025, at 3:30 pm in 272 Bascom Hall. The Memorial Resolution was prepared by the committee composed of Emeritus Professor Christopher Kleinhenz (Committee Chair), Professor Stefania Buccini, and Professor Patrick Rumble. The Memorial Resolution is …

On the 7th and 8th of March, we had the annual pleasure to welcome grad students from the United States and Canada to the 38th edition of our Graduate Symposium. This year’s topic was “Exploring the Liminal.” Our keynote, Dr. Hadji Bakara started things off on Friday with his address on refugee writing. Saturday was …

Congratulations to the following individuals from our department who were selected to present at Languages of the World Day on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at Union South. Loren Eadie, PhD (Italian – “The Real ‘Eataly:’ Learning Italian Through Food!”) Dr. Loren Eadie spoke to her group about Italian food culture, teaching them how to say if they like …

Undergraduate student James O’Toole, Communication Arts and Journalism major, completed a timeless article about Gino Bartali for his honors work in Literature in Translation 410: Secrets and Legends of Florence, taught by Professor Stefania Buccini. The article, “Timeless. The story of Gino Bartali,” must have made an impression as Professor Buccini suggested sharing this article …

A former student interviewed Professor Jan Miernowski for an article on trigger warnings for the Badger Herald. Trigger warnings in the classroom: Helping or hindering students? UW professor weighs in

Amir Issaa (Egyptian-Italian Hip-hop Artist, Writer, Educator) was on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus on Monday March 3rd, 2025 during his “Potere alle Parole-Vivo per Questo / Power to the Words-This is What I Live For” US Tour 2025 (the tour includes also lectures, workshops and concerts at Berkeley, Stanford, the Italian Cultural Institute in San …

Martin Rueff is a Professor of French Literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, as well as an acclaimed poet and translator. A specialist of 18th-century literature, especially Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Professor Rueff has also published extensively on contemporary poetry. His editorial activities include editions of Cesare Pavese’s works, Jean Starobinski’s essays as well as Claude …

This exhibit features translations and other works from the Libraries’ collection that were written by speakers participating in the upcoming Burdick-Vary Symposium on “The Work of the Literary Translator. Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics,” February 28, 2025, co-sponsored by the Department of French and Italian and the Institute for Research in the Humanities. Burdick-Vary symposium: “The …

French Love Professor Jan Miernowski Department of French & Italian See more information on the All You Need is Love series here. The talk explores the unique perspectives on love in French and Francophone cultures through an examination of its philosophical conceptualizations as well as literary and musical representations. It delves into what makes love particularly French, …