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Valeria Finucci, Professor, Romance Studies; Italian

Contact Info:

Office Location:	219E Language Center
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3119, (919) 660-3100
Email Address:

Office Hours:

tu, 4:00-6:00 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:

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 epic, romance, and theater; women's study, cultural studies, medical and literary understandings of the body, and psychoanalysis.

Areas of Interest:

renaissance literature
epic, prose romance, and tragedy
women's studies
cultural studies
psychoanalisis
genre studies

Keywords:

Europe • Italy • Renaissance • Literature • Women's studies

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)

1. Finucci, V, The Prince’s Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine (2012), Harvard University Press, ca. 300pp.
2. 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]
3. Finucci, V, Celinda, A Tragedy by Valeria Miani (2010), pp. 415pp-415pp, Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (Bilingual edition.)
4. 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
5. Finucci, V; ed, , Mapping the Mediterranean, A Special Issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 37 no. 1 (2007)
6. Finucci, V; ed, , Floridoro, a Chivalric Romance by Moderata Fonte (2006), University of Chicago Press: 493pp
7. Finucci, V; ed, , Petrarca, canoni, esemplarit (2006), Rome: Bulzoni Editore: 361pp
8. Finucci, V; ed, ; trans, , Urania by Giulia Bigolina (2005), University of Chicago Press: 192pp
9. 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)
10. Finucci, V, The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance (2003), Duke University Press: 321pp
11. Finucci, V; ed, , Urania di Giulia Bigolina (ca. 1554) (2002), Rome: Bulzoni Editore: 198pp
12. 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
13. Finucci, V; ed, , Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso (1999), Duke University Press: 328pp
14. Finucci, V; ed, , Tredici canti del Floridoro di Moderata Fonte (1581) (1995), Modena: Mucchi: 232pp
15. Finucci, V; Schwartz, R, Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature (1994), Princeton University Press: 277pp
16. 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.      

Valeria Finucci received a "Laurea" from the University of Rome and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her main interests are Renaissance literature, theater, women's study, early modern medicine, and psychoanalysis. She has written on femininity and power in Renaissance discourses, The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto (Stanford, 1992) and on issues of masculinity and paternity, The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance (Duke, 2003). She is the editor of Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso (Duke, 1999); and co-editor of two collections of essays, Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature (Princeton, 1994) and Generation and Degeneration (Duke, 2001). She has also published the critical edition of a 16th century Italian chivalric romance, Moderata Fonte's Tredici canti del Floridoro (Mucchi, 1995), and of the only prose romance written by a woman in the Renaissance, Giulia Bigolina's unedited Urania, published first in Italian (Bulzoni, 2002) and then translated into English (with "Giulia Camposampiero" added) as Urania, a Romance (U of Chicago P, January 2005). She is co-editor of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies and has just edited a special issue of the journal, In the Footsteps of Petrarch (forthcoming 2005).