bfazio@uchicago.edu
Academic Profile:
https://chicago.academia.edu/BeatriceFazio
Advisor(s):
Rocco Rubini
Subject Area:
Italian Studies
Research Interests:
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Literary History, Geocritism and Early Modern Environmentalism, the History of Cartography, Women’s Writings and Gender Studies, Digital Humanities, Second Language Acquisition and Critical Pedagogy
I am a teacher and scholar of Renaissance and early modern literature and culture, with a focus on civic humanism, geocriticism, women’s writing, and how early modern texts intersect issues of “national” identity and intellectual tradition.
I am the recipient of the Franke Institute for the Humanities Fellowship, a Modern Language Association Grant, the UChicago Research and Personal Development Fund, the Rebecca West Dissertation Grant, and the Arts, Science + Culture Initiative Fellowship.
Awards
- 2023 Wayne C. Booth Graduate Student Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Recent Courses in RLL
- CCTE 50000 1 Course Design and College Teaching (Autumn 2022)
- Fundamentals of Teaching in All Disciplines (Spring 2023)
- ITAL10200 Beginning Elementary Italian (Winter 2021, Winter 2022)
- ITAL 20300 Italian Language, History, and Culture II (Spring 2022)
- ITAL 22900 1 Vico’s New Science (Autumn 2020)
- ITAL 23325 (In)Visible Women from Dante to Elena Ferrante: Bodies, Power, Identity (Winter 2025)
- ITAL 23822 The Renaissance of Emotions (Winter 2023)
- HIST 22907-99 Florence: Living with History (Study Abroad Program) (Summer 2023)