Italian Studies
Research & Publications
Areas of Research
Faculty currently study: the symbiotic evolution of politics and mothering in early modern Italy (Castiglione); the collaboration of the Papacy with Fascism (Kertzer); the role of images in forming networks of publishers, printers and patrons in early modern Rome (Lincoln); Dante’s poetic valorization of early modern technologies (Martinez); the archaeology of virtual reality in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Riva); Fascism, Post-Fascism and the questions of reclamation and consent (Stewart-Steinberg).
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The Virtual Humanities Lab (VHL) provides a portal and a collaborative platform for faculty-led digital projects in Italian literature, philosophy, history and history of art and architecture, ranging from the early modern to the contemporary period.
The Italian Studies Colloquium is a bi-weekly forum and seminar for an exchange of ideas and work of the community of Italian scholars at Brown and invited outside scholars. Graduate students enroll and present their work in progress, and engage the work of faculty and visitors.