College of Letters & Science
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 …
Day of the Badger (DOTB) is a campus-wide annual giving effort that actually begins at 5 p.m. Central Time on April 8, and runs for 1848 minutes, until midnight on April 9th. It’s a day (and then some) for all alumni, students, and friends throughout Badger nation to give to their passion, show their pride, …
Help support our department TODAY during the Day of the Badger Campaign. You have until midnight tonight April 9th to make your donation. Any amount given helps our students, faculty and programs flourish, keeping the Department of French and Italian at the UW–Madison one of the best in the country. As an example, here’s what some smaller gifts, …
Thank you to everyone who donated to our department during the Day of the Badger. Your support will help our students, faculty and programs. We appreciate your loyalty and hope to see you soon at one of our events.
Please join us for the opening events of this wonderful, ongoing exhibition. To open the event, Alberta Lai, the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago, will be providing welcoming remarks. Following this, Professor Grazia Menechella of the Department of French and Italian will present her talk, “Italian Food Writing Across the Ocean: The …