Barbara Spackman

Chair, Cecchetti Professor of Italian Studies, Professor of Comparative Literature

Office location: 6323 Dwinelle Hall

Email: spackman@berkeley.edu
Fax: 510.642.6220

Office hours:

FALL 2009: Thursdays 3-5 & by appointment

Chair

Barbara Spackman, Ph.D. Yale University, is Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature, and holder of the Giovanni and Ruth Elizabeth Cecchetti Chair in Italian Literature. She works on nineteenth and twentieth century Italian literature and culture, with special interests in decadence, the cultural production of the fascist period, feminist theory, travel writing and Italian Orientalism. She has published on topics as diverse as Macaronic poetry, fascist film, the rhetoric of sickness at the fin de siècle, monstrosity and feminist theory, and the rhetoric of Mussolinis speeches. Her second book, Fascist Virilities: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Social Fantasy in Italy (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) won the 1998 MLA Howard R. Marraro, and Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prizes for Italian Literary Studies. Her major work in progress is a study of Italian Orientalism, entitled Detourism: Traveling Fictions from Italy to Islam.

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