Italian Studies
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Congratulations to Deion Dresser, finalist in the 2025 Penn Grad Talks
FIGS Italian Studies PhD student Deion Dresser is a finalist for the annual Penn Grad Talks! Please support his work by attending the TED Talk-style presentations on Friday, February 24 at Widener Lecture Hall, Penn Museum.
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In memory of Will Noel
Will Noel, John T. Maltsberger III '55 Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at Princeton, and former Director of the Kislak Center and the Schoenberg Institute at Penn, passed away on April 30th.
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Dr. Juliette Bellacosa
On April 19th, 2024, our Ph.D. Candidate Juliette Bellacosa defended her dissertation titled “Through the Eyes of the Beholder: Peter Greenaway’s Resurrection of the Italian Renaissance.” Congratulations, Doctor Bellacosa!
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Dr. Giulio Genovese
On February 2, 2024, our Ph.D. Candidate Giulio Genovese defended his dissertation titled "A militant Dante: sociopolitical uses of the Sommo Poeta in post-1968 Italy." Congratulations, Doctor Genovese!
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Congratulations to Julia Heim on her new edited volume: Spaghetti Sissies: Queering Italian American Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Dr. Tommaso De Robertis
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New Arrival this Fall:
Italian Studies at Penn is delighted to welcome Marco Aresu (Ph.D. Harvard), who will join the FIGS Department as Assistant Professor next Fall. Prof.
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Congratulations to our graduate students!
The spring semester might be over, but it is time to celebrate our students!
Please join us in congratulating our graduate students who were honored with awards and fellowships during this past academic year.
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Dr. Mario Sassi
On April 14, 2023, our Ph.D. Candidate Mario Sassi defended his dissertation titled "The Supernatural in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Exempla."
Congratulations, Doctor Sassi!
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Lourdes Contreras awarded the SAS Dean's Award!
Lourdes Contreras, Ph.D. Candidate in Italian, was awarded the School of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Congratulations, Lourdes!
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Italian Studies at Penn embraces research and teaching concerning agents, people and institutions--with related linguistic, intellectual and artistic objects and media--mostly originating from Italian-speaking geographical areas and featuring relationships with the Italian language, its dialects, and the Latinate tradition, from the Medieval period to today.