 Chair: Julia Simon,
512B Sproul Hall, 530-752-8573
jsimon@ucdavis.edu
Ph.D., UC San Diego
Professor of French
She specializes in 18th-century French literature and culture, particularly the work of the philosophes, with special emphasis on the relevance of Enlightenment social, political, moral, and aesthetic theory today. She is the author of Beyond Contractual Morality: Ethics, Law, and Literature in Eighteenth-Century France and Mass Enlightenment: Critical Studies in Rousseau and Diderot and is currently working on a project concerning eighteenth-century music theory.
Dr. Simon's personal website
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 Antonella Bassi, 405 Sproul Hall
aabassi@ucdavis.edu
M.A., CSU Sacramento
Lecturer in Italian
She received her Laurea in Lettere Moderne (1978) from the Università
degli Studi di Milano, where she focused on Human Geography. (Her
dissertation analyzes the changing boundaries and identity of her
hometown, Milano, 1873-1923). Her ongoing interest in pedagogical
issues, particularly Foreign Language instruction, led her to a M.A. in
Education (Curriculum and Instruction) (CSUS, 1988), and her current
position at UCD, where she has been teaching Italian language and
culture since 1988.
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 JoAnn Cannon, 502 Sproul Hall
jccannon@ucdavis.edu
Ph.D., Cornell University
Professor of Italian
Undergraduate Advisor
Specialization in modern Italian literature and literary theory |
 Gustavo Foscarini, 408 Sproul Hall
gafoscarini@ucdavis.edu
M.A., UC Davis
Lecturer, SOE in Italian
Biography forthcoming
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 Jay Grossi, 410 Sproul Hall
jgrossi@ucdavis.edu
M.A., UC Berkeley
Lecturer in Italian
Biography forthcoming
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 Margherita Heyer-Caput, 510 Sproul Hall
mheyercaput@ucdavis.edu
Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor of Italian
Margherita Heyer-Caput completed her education in Italy (Laurea in Filosofia, 1980, University of Turin) and the United States (Ph.D. inRomance Languages and Literatures, 1993, Harvard
University), and taught for several years at the University of Berne, Switzerland, and various universities of the East Coast. Her research and teaching areas cover the Italian
literature of the twentieth and nineteenth centuries, with particular attention to philosophical approaches to literature, Italian women writers, Italian and Italian American cinema.
Professor Heyer-Caput's latest book, Grazia Deledda's Dance of Modernity (University of Toronto Press, 2008), offers a new interpretation of the 1926 Literature Nobel Prize laureate
Grazia Deledda in the context of philosophical modernity. Dr. Heyer-Caput's previous volumes are: Esistenza e ragione nell'opera di Franz Kafka (1982. Existence and Reason
in Franz Kafka's Work) and Per una letteratura della riflessione: elementi filosofico-scientifici nell'opera di Luigi Malerba (1995. For a Literature of Reflection:
Philosophical and Scientific Aspects of Luigi Malerba' s Work). Dr. Heyer-Caput's personal website
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Juliana Schiesari, 506 Sproul Hall, 530-752-4627
jkschiesari@ucdavis.edu
Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature
Juliana Schiesari is the author of The Gendering of Melancholia: Feminism, Psychoanalysis and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance Literature, and co-editor of Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance.
Her areas of research include: feminist theory, psychoanalysis,
Renaissance and early modern literature, women's literature and
cultural studies. She is currently writing a book on the politics of
domestication of women and animals. |
