Stefania Buccini
Credentials: PhD, Brown University
Position title: Halls-Bascom Professor of Italian
Email: sbuccini@wisc.edu
Phone: 262-9736
Address:
668 Van Hise Hall
- Spring 2025 Office Hours
- Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:15-1:15pm, or by appointment
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 Publications
- Lettori di sé medesimi. Autobiografia e lettura nel Settecento (forthcoming)
- Francesco Pona. L’ozio lecito della scrittura (2013)
- Sentimento della morte dal Barocco al declino dei Lumi (2000)
- Alfieri Beyonfd Italy (2005)
- 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
- Hall-Bascom Professor, 2020
- Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, 2018
- Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, 2013
- Brenda Pfaheler, Award of Excellence, 2013
- Carol Mason Kirk Professorship, 2004-2006
- Vilas Associate Awardee, 2000-2001
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1998
- Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, Spring 1994