Terrill Distinguished Professor (held from 2002-2019) Emeritus
Albert Russell Ascoli, Ph.D. Cornell University 1983. His principal field of research and teaching is Medieval and Early Modern Italian culture from the 13th to the 16th centuries.
His interests include the relations between literary form and history; the author-reader relationship; the construction of Italian national identity; literary politics of gender; Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Ariosto, Shakespeare. His most recent books are Dante and the Making of a Modern Author (Cambridge, 2008) and A Local Habitation, and a Name: Imagining Histories...
Professor Emerita of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature
Italian Studies
Comparative Literature
Louise George Clubb is Professor Emerita of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature. A former Chair of the Department of Italian (as it then was) and Dean of Humanities in the College of Letters and Science, she is a leading expert on Italian Renaissance theater and literary relations between Italy and England during the Renaissance.
Her books include Giambattista della Porta, Dramatist (1965); Italian Plays (1500-1700) in the Folger Library: A Biblography with Introduction (1968); Giambattista della Porta: Gli duoi fratelli rivali/The Two Rival Brothers...
Professor Emeritus of Art History, Affiliated Professor of Italian Studies
Art History
Italian Studies
Chris Hallett received his education at the University of Bristol, Lincoln College Oxford, and UC Berkeley. From 1993 to 2001 he taught at the University of Washington, Seattle, and since 2001 he has held a joint-appointment in UC Berkeley’s Departments of History of Art and Classics. He is primarily known as a specialist in Roman sculpture, being the author of The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC-AD 300 (Oxford 2005). But he has just completed the manuscript of a book on literature and the visual arts in the triumviral and early Augustan period: Art, Poetry and...
Mara Mauri Jacobsen, Ph.D. Italian, University of California, Berkeley, Laurea in History and Philosophy, University of Milan, is co-author of Prego!: An Invitation to Italian and of Il reale e il possibile, An Intermediate to Advanced Reader. She has published on Italo Calvino and postmodern philosophy, on Giacomo Leopardi, and on Italian feminist writers in Italica, Quaderni ditalianistica, Italiana, La Rivista, and Leggere donna...
Professor Emeritus of Italian Studies and Film & Media
Italian Studies
Film & Media
Gavriel Moses, Ph.D. Brown University, is Emeritus Professor of Italian Studies and Film & Media. His areas of specialization include Italian and European Literature from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, literature in film, and the history and theory of the representational apparatus from the sixteenth century to the present. His recent publications include essays on Marino and the Representational Apparatus, on Books in the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, on Bodies and Discourse and Subjects in American cinema, as well as the book The Nickel...
Ignacio Navarrete, Ph.D. (Comparative Literature), Indiana University, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He holds a B.A. from Columbia University. His research interests include Castiglione and imitation theory, Petrarchism and its effect on lyric poetry and poetics, and the presence of Italian culture in the Spanish Renaissance. His recent publications include Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance(University of California Press, 1994), and Francisco Sá de Miranda, Garcilaso de la Vega, and the Transfer of...
Professor Emeritus of History of Art and Italian Studies
History of Art
Italian Studies
Loren Partridge, Ph.D. Harvard University, is Professor of the History of Art and Italian Studies. A scholar of Italian Renaissance painting, sculpture, and architecture with an emphasis on Rome, Florence, and Venice, he has approached his topic through genres: urbanism (fortifications, streets, public sculpture); churches (altarpieces, chapels, tombs), palaces and palace decoration (devotional works, portraits, halls of state) and villas and villa decoration (frescoes, gardens, fountains). His recent publications include Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel (Braziller, 1996) and ...
Distinguished Professor Emerita of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature; Former Giovanni and Ruth Elizabeth Cecchetti Chair of Italian Literature
Italian Studies
Comparative Literature
Barbara Spackman, Ph.D. Yale University, is Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature Emerita, and former Giovanni and Ruth Elizabeth Cecchetti Chair of 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, film of the fascist period, the rhetoric of sickness at the fin de siècle, Italian futurism, contemporary feminist...
Randolph Starn, Ph.D. (History) Harvard University, is emeritus professor of History and Italian Studies. From Spring 2003 through Summer 2004 he was the first director of the Italian Studies Program in the Center for European Studies.
Stephen Tobriner, Ph.D. Harvard University, is a professor in the Department of Architecture and curator of the College of Environmental Design Documents Collection. Professor Tobriner teaches courses on the history of architecture and cities, Baroque architecture, Mesoamerican architecture and urbanism, engineering history, the history of reconstruction after seismic disasters, and social responsibility in architecture. His current research activity includes the history of the Cathedral of Noto, Sicily, which collapsed in 1996, the history of San Francisco architecture and engineering,...
