Rocco Rubini
Professor of Italian Literature
Office: Wieboldt 232
rubini@uchicago.edu
Professor Rubini’s scholarship focuses on the reception and reevaluation of the Italian Renaissance and Humanism in Italian, German, and American academia during the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries. He is currently completing a book on Italy’s “special path” to modernity and postmodernity vis-à-vis other Western cultures (France and Germany, in particular). His interests include the history of Italian theatre (from Humanist and Renaissance comedy to Goldoni, including commedia dell’arte), rhetoric, autobiography, Vico, hermeneutics, and intellectual history. He has recently published articles and reviews in Annali d’Italianistica, Forum Italicum, Philosophy & Rhetoric, and Italian Culture.
Education
- PhD in Comparative Literature and Renaissance Studies, Yale University, 2009
- MA in Comparative Literature and Renaissance Studies, Yale University, 2006
- BA (Summa cum laude) in Comparative Literature, New York University, 2002
Awards, Honors and Professional Experience
- Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, 2008-2009
- Baden-Württemberg Exchange Scholarship, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany, 2005-2006
- Phil Beta Kappa, 2002
Selected Courses Taught
- Italian Comic Theatre
- Renaissance Humanisim
- Italian Autobiography
- Common Core