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Stefania Buccini

Title: 
Professor
Degree: 

PhD, Italian, Brown University, 1989

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.

Faculty Office: 
Van Hise 668
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Distinctions:

  • Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994 II
  • Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1998-99
  • Vilas Associate Research Grant, 2000-01
  • Carol Mason Kirk, Named Professorship, 2004-06

Selected Publications:

  • Il dilemma della Grande Atlantide. Le Americhe nella letteratura italiana del Settecento e del primo Ottocento (1990) [Tr. The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture: 1700-1825 (1997)
  • Sentimento della morte dal Barocco al declino dei Lumi (2000)
  • L'ozio lecito della scrittura: Francesco Pona letterato (forthcoming, 2009)

Teaching and research interests: Stefania Buccini is Professor of Italian. Her areas of specialty are seventeenth-, eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Italian literature and culture.  This includes early baroque novel and poetry, Counter-reform sacred oratory, libertine fiction and ideology, the culture of the enlightenment, antique printed editions and manuscripts, autobiography and theater. She is presently working on the motif of solitude and "otium litterarum" in eighteenth-century Italian literature.

Primary Language: 
Italian