Alice Fischetti is a doctoral student in the Department of Italian Studies at UC Berkeley with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She received a B.A. from New York University in Comparative Literature and Romance Languages (French and Italian), and an M.A. in Italian Studies from New York University in Florence, where her thesis examined gendered language and marginality in Italian Renaissance lyric poetry. Her current work examines colonial and postcolonial representations of indigeneity in Italian literature and film vis-à-vis contemporary migrant cultural production...
Kristen is a Ph.D. candidate in Berkeley’s Department of Italian Studies.
Her dissertation-in-progress (What Guido Means: Cavalcanti’s Corpus in the Florentine Quattrocento) addresses the afterlife of 13th century poet Guido Cavalcanti in 15th century philosophy, particularly in the milieu of Marsilio Ficino.
She holds an M.A. in Italian Studies from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Italian Studies and Latin from the American University of Rome. She is also a longtime collaborator of the Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study, where she has held a variety of both teaching and...
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 Anne Tucker is a PhD candidate in the Department of Italian Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (REMS). She also holds an M.A. in art history from the Syracuse University Florence Program in Italian Renaissance Art. Her dissertation research explores the representation of enslaved persons in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Italian art and literature, with a specific focus on images and texts produced in the Kingdom of Naples. She is a 2025-2026 research resident at the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities “La Capraia” in...
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...
