LAUREN SUROVI

EDUCATION

• B.A., International Relations and Italian, Syracuse University
• M.A., Italian, Middlebury College

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Italian Renaissance literature, with particular focus on the intersections between theatre and politics; Renaissance Florence; Machiavelli, Aretino, Tasso.

DISSERTATION TITLE

Rimedio as Medical, Political, and Social Cure in Italian Renaissance Drama

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• “‘Per procacciarvi il rimedio con il proprio sangue’: Pietro Aretino and the Satirical Remedy,” SCSC, Milwaukee, WI, Oct 2017.
• “The Madonna and the Whore: Problematizing Pasolini’s Portrayal of Women and Sexuality in Mamma Roma and Teorema,” MLA, Philadelphia, Jan. 2017.
• “A Sublime Virtù: Translating History, Power, and the Human in Machiavelli’s Principe,” MMLA, St. Louis, Nov. 2016.
• “The Toxic Cure: Remedy and Poison in Machiavelli’s Mandragola,” GAFIS, Madison, WI, April 2016.
• “La Storia behind Elsa Morante’s romanzo popolare,” GAFIS, Madison, WI, April 2014.

COURSES TAUGHT

• ITA 101
• ITA 102
• ITA 203
• Lit Trans 360
• Italian for Reading Knowledge, UW Continuing Studies