Professor Carolyn Springer came to Stanford in 1985 after receiving a Ph.D. in Italian language and literature from Yale University. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities/American Academy in Rome, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies/Villa I Tatti, the Ford Foundation, and the Fulbright Foundation. Her research has focused primarily on Renaissance and nineteenth-century literature and cultural history. Publications include The Marble Wilderness: Ruins and Representation in Italian Romanticism, 1775-1850 (Cambridge University Press); Immagini del Novecento italiano (Macmillan, coeditors Pietro Frassica and Giovanni Pacchiano); and History and Memory in European Romanticism (special issue of Stanford Literature Review). Her latest book, Armor and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance, is forthcoming with University of Toronto Press.
1981: Ph.D., Italian Language and Literature, with Distinction Yale University 1977: M.A., Italian Language and Literature Yale University 1974: B.A., magna cum laude, College of Letters Wesleyan University 1970-1972: Smith College
