IS Faculty
Visiting Faculty Descriptions
Each year the Department hosts a number of visiting faculty from
Italy and around the world whose participation in our activities
ranges from full semester courses, to shorter mini-courses, to
individual seminar meetings. Among those who have taught
in the recent past are Francesco Casetti (Film and Media Studies),
Luisa Passerini (History), Giorgio Agamben (Philosophy), Cesare
Segre (Italian Literature and Romance Philology), Armando Petrucci
(Paleography and History of the Book), Zygmunt Baranski (Dante),
Bianca Maria Frabotta (Contemporary Poetry). Also listed
here are emeritus faculty who are teaching in the program this
year.
We have three distinguished visitors with us this fall: Paul Ginsborg, Visiting
Professor in the Chair of Italian Culture; Tim Parks, Visiting Lecturer in
the Chair of Italian Culture; and Ayse Saracgil, Visiting Scholar.
Tim Parks will be our guest for two weeks in September as Chair of Italian
Culture. Novelist, essayist, translator and critic, Parks is the author of
numerous novels, including the recently published Dreams of Rivers and Seas,
non-fiction accounts of Italian life, including Italian Neighbors and
A Season with Verona, as well as collections of critical essays,
including Hell and Back and Translating Style. He will deliver
two lectures; for more information, see Events.
Paul Ginsborg will join us as Visiting Professor in the Chair of Italian
Culture for fall semester. Professor Ginsborg taught for many years at Cambridge
University before becoming Professor of Contemporary European History in the
Faculty of Letters, University of Florence, in 1992. He is the author of Daniele
Manin and the Venetian Revolution of 1848-49 (Cambridge University Press
1979), A History of Contemporary Italy (Penguin 1990), Italy
and its Discontents (Penguin 2001), The Politics of Everyday Life
(Yale University Press 2005) and Democracy. Crisis and Renewal (Profile
2008). In 2006 the British Academy awarded him the Serena medal for his studies
on Italian history. He has been much involved recently in Italian civic affairs
and his critical biography Berlusconi (Einaudi 2003) reached the top of the
Italian non-fiction bestseller charts. He will deliver a series of three lectures,
and offer a graduate seminar.
Ayse Saraēgil joins us as Visiting Scholar during the month of September.
Professor Saraēgil teaches Turkish language and literature, and history of
the Ottoman Empire, at the University of Florence. She is the author of Il
maschio camaleonte: Strutture patriarcali nell'Impero ottomano e nella Turchia
moderna (Bruno Mondadori 2001).
|
