News & Events
On Wednesday, May 15 and Thursday, May 16, the Department of French and Italian welcomed internationally renowned Italian political theorist, essayist, and journalist Ida Dominijanni. With co-host Professor Cesare Casarino (University of Minnesota), Ida Dominijanni held a workshop, Psychoanalysis and Italian Feminism and a keynote lecture, Wounded Patriarchy: Women's Freedom in Times of War.
Many thanks to the Alumnae of Northwestern University for their generous support of these events.
We are pleased to announce that Professor Cynthia Nazarian has been recognized by the Office of the Provost and honored with the University Teaching Award. Professor Nazarian will receive the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence.
Congratulations Professor Nazarian!
This past May, Professor Massimiliano Delfino published a collection of poetry, L'Apocalisse Nuda with the Italian press Marietti1820.
The verses of Apocalisse nuda recount the contemporary sunset of Humanity. An end that did not bring with itself any further meaning, nor the promise of a new beginning. In a present characterized by increasing wars and totalitarianisms, imminent environmental disasters, incomplete processes of decolonization, degradation of work towards precarity and exploitation, and, above all, by the digitalization and virtualization of the human experience, the book proposes a path of emancipation from the present.
This past March, Professor Paola Nasti published her long-awaited book on the Bible and intertextuality in Dante, I morsi della carità. Dante a la «Bibbia» with Giorgio Pozzi Editore.
The essays collected in Professor Nasti's new book propose an organic journey into Dante Alighieri's biblical and religious culture to reflect on some of the central issues of the poet's work and thought which revolve around the concept of charity as a manifestation of the divine: the practice of Christ-mimicry and holiness, salvation, soteriology and ecclesiology, prophecy, knowledge, biblical interpretation and above all the charisma of poetry.
Fall Quarter Courses
See here for the full selection of our upcoming fall quarter classes in the Department of French & Italian!
Events
Table française à Crowe Hall
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
The Department of French and Italian is holding several BYOL (bring your own lunch) French Table events in Crowe Hall on Fridays each q...
Weekly French Table — La table française
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
Join us on Mondays from 12:00-1:00pm on the mezzanine of Allison Dining Hall and practice your French language skills with other studen...
Weekly French Table — La table française
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
Join us on Mondays from 12:00-1:00pm on the mezzanine of Allison Dining Hall and practice your French language skills with other studen...
News
The Department of French and Italian launches L'Atelier Théâtre
Beginning in fall quarter of 2023, Professor Viot-Southard will be leading a French theatre and performance workshop on Monday afternoons at 3:00pm.
Daniela Pozzi Pavan awarded the CLI Excellence in Teaching Award
Every year, the Council in Language Instruction bestows this honor on a member of the language teaching track faculty who has distinguished themselves by their contributions to and accomplishment in pedagogy both inside and outside the classroom. Congratulazioni, Daniela!