College of Letters & Science
Fall 2026 Office Hours Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Biography Primary Language French Specialties and Areas of Research Interest 20th– and 21st-century French literature, theory, and culture; urban studies and cartographic theory; geocriticism and ecocriticism. Selected Publications Monograph Articles and Contributions to Edited Volumes
Fall 2026 Office Hours Please contact for appointment Biography Primary Language Italian Specialties and Areas of Research Interest Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italian literature with a special focus on the Italian vision of the Americas; the literary representation of death; the rise and development of the novel; autobiography; manuscripts and antique books; history of reading. Selected …
Fall 2026 Office Hours 🕒 Wednesdays 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, or by appointment Biography Primary Language French and Arabic Specialties and Areas of Research Interest Francophone Studies (North Africa and France) ; postcolonial studies and decolonial theories; art and politics; the anarchive ; popular culture, Middle Eastern literature and culture Selected Publications Books Edited …
Fall 2026 Office Hours Please contact for appointment Biography Specialties and Areas of Research Interest Ernesto Livorni is Professor of Italian Language and Literature, Comparative Literature and Religious Studies, at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. His scholarly publications include: Petrarch and Petrarchism(s). Co-edited with Jelena Todorovic. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance …
Fall 2026 Office Hours Please contact for appointment Biography Primary Language Italian Specialties and Areas of Research Interest 19th and 20th-century literature; theories of irony and parody; women writers; cultural studies. Selected Publications Publications on Giorgio Manganelli, Alberto Moravia, Romana Petri, popular culture.
Fall 2026 Office Hours Tuesdays 2:30-3:30 pm, or by appointment Biography Primary Language French Specialties and Areas of Research Interest French Literature and Culture; Renaissance Studies; Literary Responses to Early Modern Philosophy, Theology and Political Rhetoric; Early Modern Humanism, 20th-century Anti-humanism, and 21st-century Posthumanism; 20th– and 21st-century Literature and Philosophy; Digital Humanities and e-Learning. Jan …
Fall 2026 Office Hours Please contact for appointment Biography Primary Language Italian Specialties and Areas of Research Interest 14th-17th-c. Italian literature and visual art • Machiavelli • 15th-17th-c. theater • Renaissance poetics • politics & patronage • theological debates • Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the reception of the Three Italian Crowns • Poliziano • Castiglione • …
Fall 2026 Office Hours Please contact for appointment Biography Primary Language Italian Specialties and Areas of Research Interest History and aesthetics of Italian Cinema and 20th-century literature; Critical theory and the history of the avant-gardes; Italian American film and television. Selected Publications Publications on Pasolini, Moravia, Antonioni, Tornatore, Gioli.
Fall 2026 Office Hours 🕒 Please contact for appointment Biography Primary Language Italian Specialties and Areas of Research Interest Medieval Italian literature; material philology, codicology, and paleography; textual criticism; Old Occitan, classical and medieval Latin literary traditions in relation to the Italian literature of the origins; the book in the Renaissance; Counter-Reformation, Inquisition, and censorship; lyric …
Fall 2026 Office Hours Please contact for appointment Biography Primary Language French Specialties and Areas of Research Interest 19th-century French fiction and poetry; literature and science (psychology, medicine, biology); literature and philosophy; 20th-century Austrian literature; European intellectual and cultural history; intellectual and cultural transfers Selected Publications Books Robert Musil. Le “virtuose de la distance.” Paris, …