| Valeria Finucci, Professor Emerita
Renaissance theater, epic, romance, and treatise; women writers, medical and literary understandings of the body, Venetian culture, Renaissance fashion, medicine in early modern Italy, New World's pharmacy, and psychoanalysis.
- Contact Info:
Office Location: | 219E Language Center, Durham, NC 27708 | Office Phone: | (919) 660-3119 | Email Address: | | - Office Hours:
- Mondays: 2:45-3:45 and by appointment.
- Education:
Ph.D. | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | 1983 |
PhD in Comparative Literature | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1983 |
MA in Comparative Literature | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1977 |
Advanced Certificate | Mount Hoyoke College | 1976 |
Laurea in Modern Languages and Literature, summa cum laude, | University of Rome | 1974 |
- Specialties:
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Italian
Early Modern Gender Studies, Feminism, Women Studies, Queer Studies Psychoanalysis, Psychology Performance Studies Comparative Studies: Translation, Travel Narratives, Trans-Culturality Sciences, Technologies
- Research Interests:
Renaissance theater, epic, romance, and treatise; women writers, medical and literary understandings of the body, Venetian culture, Renaissance fashion, medicine in early modern Italy, New World's pharmacy, and psychoanalysis.
- Areas of Interest:
- Renaissance literature (theater, epic, romance, novella, treatise)
Venetian Culture and Early Modern University Life Fashion and Self-Representation in the Renaissance Women's Studies Cultural and Material Studies Early Modern Medical and Pharmaceutical Culture Psychoanalisis
- Current Ph.D. Students
- Laura Martell (Duke, Italian)
- April Weintritt (UNC Romance Studies)
- Tessa Gurney (UNC, Romance Studies)
- Danila Cannamela (UNC, Romance Languages) graduated
- Brandon Essary (UNC, Romance Languages, graduated 2012)
- Jennifer Kosmin (UNC, History) graduated
- Layla Aldousany (Duke, English)
- Teresa Moore (Duke, Italian and French)
- Sean Parrish (Duke, History) graduated
- Martin Repinetz (Duke, Italian and Spanish) graduated
- Julie Singer (Duke, Italian and French, graduated)
- Maria Park (Duke, French, graduated)
- Christine Ristaino (UNC, Romance Languages, graduated)
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Finucci, V, The Prince’s Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine
(2012), Harvard University Press, ca. 300pp.
- Finucci, V, Thinking through death: The politics of the corpse, edited by Valeria Finucci,
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 45 no. 1
(January, 2015),
pp. 1-6, Duke University Press [doi]
- Finucci, V, Celinda, A Tragedy by Valeria Miani
(2010),
pp. 415pp-415pp, Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (Bilingual edition.)
- Finucci, V; Bonati, MR, Mores Italiae: Costume and Life in the Renaissance // Costumi e scene di vita del Rinascimento (Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 457)
(2007), Bilingual Edition (English/Italian). Padua: Biblos: 232pp
- Finucci, V; ed,, Mapping the Mediterranean,
A Special Issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 37 no. 1
(2007)
- Finucci, V; ed,, Floridoro, a Chivalric Romance by Moderata Fonte
(2006), University of Chicago Press: 493pp
- Finucci, V; ed,, Petrarca, canoni, esemplarit
(2006), Rome: Bulzoni Editore: 361pp
- Finucci, V; ed, ; trans,, Urania by Giulia Bigolina
(2005), University of Chicago Press: 192pp
- Finucci, V; ed,, In the Footsteps of Petrarch: Literature, Art, Music, Culture,
A Special Issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 35 no. 3
(2005)
- Finucci, V, The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance
(2003), Duke University Press: 321pp
- Finucci, V; ed,, Urania di Giulia Bigolina (ca. 1554)
(2002), Rome: Bulzoni Editore: 198pp
- V. Finucci and K. Brownlee, eds, Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe
(2001), Duke University Press: 327pp
- Finucci, V; ed,, Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso
(1999), Duke University Press: 328pp
- Finucci, V; ed,, Tredici canti del Floridoro di Moderata Fonte (1581)
(1995), Modena: Mucchi: 232pp
- Finucci, V; Schwartz, R, Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature
(1994), Princeton University Press: 277pp
- Finucci, V, The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto
(1992), Stanford University Press: 329pp
- Selected Grant Support
- National Humanities Center Fellowship.
- Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University.
- Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for Research in Venice.
- Fellowship, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University.
- Research Grant, Harvard University/Villa I Tatti.
- Trent Foundation Grant.
- Trent Foundation Grant to organize a symposium at Duke in 2011.
- Conferences Organized
- Symposium "Vesalius and the Languages of Anatomy", September 18, 2015, Duke University
- Exhibit, "The Languages of Anatomy: From Vesalius to the Digital Age", Co-organizer, Rubenstein Library and History of Medicine Library, August-November 2015, Duke University
- Symposium on “The Mediterranean Diet: Premodern Food Fashioning", March 2014, Duke University
- Symposium on "Thinking Through Death: Corpses and Mortality Strategies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe". September 11, 2012, Symposium on "Thinking Through Death: Corpses and Mortality Strategies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe", October 19, 2012, Duke University
- Symposium on "Holy Relics and Cursed Bodies: The Politics of the Corpse". August 7, 2012, Symposium on "Holy Relics and Cursed Bodies: The Politics of the Corpse", April 6, 2012, Duke University
- Organizer of Series "Crossings: Navigating Cultures in the Medieval and Early Modern Period". January 17, 2011, Organizer of Series "Crossings: Navigating Cultures in the Medieval and Early Modern Period", Duke University
- Symposium on "Animated Anatomies: The Human Body from the 16th through the 21st Centuries," Duke University. September 23, 2010, Symposium on "Animated Anatomies: The Human Body from the 16th through the 21st Centuries," Duke University, April 18, 2011, Duke University
- Co-Organizer, Perkins Library and History of Medicine Library, Duke University : Exhibit, "Animated Anatomies". May 14, 2010, Co-Organizer, Perkins Library and History of Medicine Library, Duke University : Exhibit, "Animated Anatomies", April 11-July 18, 2011, Duke University
- Co-Organizer : Symposium "L'occhio del viaggiatore: Costumi e scene di vita nell'Italia del Rinascimento". May 14, 2010, Co-Organizer : Symposium "L'occhio del viaggiatore: Costumi e scene di vita nell'Italia del Rinascimento", May 2008, University of Padua, Italy
- Organizer of Symposium : Symposium "In the Footsteps of Petrarch: Poetry, Music, Art, Culture". May 1, 2008, Organizer of Symposium : Symposium "In the Footsteps of Petrarch: Poetry, Music, Art, Culture", April 2014, Duke University
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