Stefania Buccini
Credentials: PhD, Brown University
Position title: Professor of Italian, Department Chair
Email: sbuccini@wisc.edu
Phone: 262-9736
Address:
668 Van Hise Hall
Primary language
Italian
Specialties
17th, 18th, and early 19th-century Italian literature and culture; Baroque novel and poetry; Counter-reform sacred oratory; libertine fiction and ideology; antique printed editions and early modern manuscripts.
Selected publications
Authored Books:
- Il piacere di leggere. Tipologie della lettura privata nel Settecento (in progress)
- Francesco Pona. L’ozio lecito della scrittura (2013)
- Sentimento della morte dal Barocco al declino dei Lumi (2000)
- The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture: 1700-1825 (1997)
- Il dilemma della Grande Atlantide. Le Americhe nella letteratura italiana del Settecento e del primo Ottocento (1990)
Distinctions
- Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, 2018
- Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, 2013
- Brenda Pfaheler, Award of Excellence, Center for Educational Opportunities, 2013
- Carol Mason Kirk, Named Professorship, 2004-2006
- Vilas Associate Research Grant, 2000-2001
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1998
- Fellowship, Institute for Reseach in the Humanities, Spring 1994