Kristen has a background in Dante studies and a special interest in Medicean Florence. More generally, she studies relationships between poetry and philosophy, medicine and theology, word and image in the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance. These things have also brought her to ponder the work and legacy of art historian, Aby Warburg; his methodology and peculiar way of understanding the life of images and other cultural forms.
Her dissertation-in-progress (What Guido Means: Cavalcanti’s Corpus in the Florentine Quattrocento) addresses the afterlife of 13th century poet Guido...
Kevin is a Ph.D. candidate on the linguistics track of the Romance Languages and Literatures Program, emphasis Italian. Kevin’s interdisciplinary research focuses on the sociolinguistic history of the Romance language family, with particular emphasis on its interactions with languages and cultures beyond Western Europe. In his dissertation project, Kevin uses qualitative and quantitative historical sociolinguistic methods to investigate linguistic phenomena that spawned from the Italian colonial period in the Horn of Africa (1882-1947), such as the development of Italian-African...
Sally Tucker holds a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of North Carolina Asheville and an M.A. in Art History from Syracuse University. Her M.A. studies included a year of coursework and research in Florence, Italy, as a Syracuse University Florence Fellow, where she completed her thesis entitled l’ottimo artista: Benvenuto Cellini’s Apollo and Hyacinth and the Sculptural Theory of Benedetto Varchi. Currently, her research focuses on Early Modern Italian literary academies, sixteenth-century art theory and Renaissance artists’ engagement with academic debate....
Research interests: global early modern, digital humanities, travel writing, mobility studies, book history, postcolonial criticism
Zhonghua’s doctoral dissertation, tentatively titled “Global Italy and its Orient: travelers, networks and cultural mobility between Italy and China 1500-1800”, investigates the entanglements of people, texts and ideas between Italy and China, two key “nodes of convergence” of the Eurasian networks during the first global age. Drawing on theories and methodologies in global history, network analysis, mobility studies and book history, the dissertation...
