Italian Studies

At Brown, Nicole Gercke was both a doctoral and postdoctoral fellow in Italian Studies and the Virtual Humanities Lab, working on digital humanities projects for the Decameron Web. She was the recipient of an exchange fellowship from the University of Bologna to explore “Humanism, Neohumanism and Posthumanism in the Media Age.”​ Her dissertation, written under the direction of M. Riva,  focused on how modern Italian authors, including polymath Alberto Savinio, reimagined medical, scientific and technological developments in their work across media.