Dear EEBL Students and Alumni,
We are happy to share the announcement that the interdisciplinary doctoral program in Italian studies is accepting applications for the academic year 2022-23. Please find the details below.
The Department of Italian Studies at Brown University (Providence, RI, USA) invites applications to its PHD program for AY 2022-23. Italian Studies at Brown is an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and post-colonial program dedicated to the study of Italian identity through multiple perspectives and across historical periods. Faculty and students in this department, along with affiliated researchers across the university, focus on Italy in a global context, through literary, historical and art historical studies, critical and sociopolitical theory, the digital humanities and the latest methodologies in language pedagogy. In our selection process, we are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion and especially welcome applicants from underrepresented groups and Italy's ex-colonies.
Application deadline: January 3, 2022. Inquiries and contacts:
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. Information about the application process can be found here.
Opportunities: In addition to doctoral certificates in a variety of fields (including Teaching Methods, Collaborative Humanities, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Public Humanities) as part of their curriculum doctoral students in Italian Studies can complete a Masters degree in a discipline of their choice through the Open Graduate Education program. Placement record of recent graduates includes post-doctoral, tenure-track and tenured positions at Brown (Dean’s Fellow), CASVA (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery in Washington), NEH at the University of South Carolina library, Colgate University, Colorado College, Queens College, SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology, Trinity College Rome, the University of Maryland, the University of New Hampshire, and the private sector.
Financial information: Students who are admitted to the doctoral programs in Italian Studies are guaranteed six years of support, including a stipend (for the 2020-2021 academic year, stipend was $29,926), full tuition remission, health-services fee, and health-insurance.
Core graduate faculty in Italian Studies includes:
Cristina Abbona Sneider, Senior Lecturer and director of language studies, co-author of Trame. A Contemporary Italian Reader (Yale University Press, 2010). Her new Italian textbook in progress will be published on the platform TopHat.
Caroline Castiglione, Professor of Italian Studies, Professor of History, (early modern history and society, gender studies). Author, most recently, of Accounting for Affection: Mothering and Politics in Rome, 1630-1730 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Prof. Castiglione is currently focusing on the political thought of Moderata Fonte.
David I. Kertzer, Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies (modern and contemporary history and politics). Prof. Kertzer's book, The Pope and Mussolini, won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2015. His forthcoming book, The Pope at War, examines Pope Pius XII’s relations with Mussolini and Hitler during World War II.
Evelyn Lincoln, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Professor of Italian Studies (production and reception of printed images in the early modern period in Europe). Author, most recently, of Brilliant Discourse: Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome (Yale UP, 2014), and editor of the digital project, The Theater That Was Rome, Prof. Lincoln is currently working on the history of the printers at the Roman Tipografia Medicea Orientale.
R.L. Martinez, Professor of Italian Studies (Dante, Boccaccio, early modern theatre and epics). Co-editor, with Robert Durling, of the Oxford University Press edition of Dante's Comedy, his current research focuses on Dante’s poetic valorization of early modern technologies.
Massimo Riva, Professor of Italian Studies and Modern Culture and Media (modern and contemporary culture, film, media and digital humanities). Editor of several award-winning digital projects (Decameron Web, Garibaldi Panorama archive), his new book, a digital monograph entitled Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World, will be published by Stanford University Press, in the spring of 2022.
Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Professor of Italian Studies, Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media (literature, culture and politics of the nineteenth and twentieth century). Author of The Pinocchio Effect: On Making Italians (1860-1930) (University of Chicago Press, 2007), she is currently completing a book project entitled Grounds for Reclamation: Fascism, Post-fascism and the Question of Consent.
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