Faculty

Carolyn Springer

Associate Professor of Italian
Director of Graduate Studies, Italian
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Italian

135 Pigott Hall
650 723 1351
springer@stanford.edu
Office hours:
TH 1:00-3:00

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 nineteenth-century Italian literature and cultural history. Publications include The Marble Wilderness: Ruins and Representation in Italian Romanticism, 1775-1850 (Cambridge University Press). Currently she is completing a book on armor as a cultural artifact and symbolic form in early modern Italy.

Interests

Nineteenth-century Italian literature and cultural history; lyric poetry; gender studies; Renaissance visual culture; history of landscape

Education

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

Current courses

ITALGEN 365 Italian Romanticism
ITALLIT 128 The Italian Renaissance and the Path to Modernity (Winter)
ITALLIT 129 Modern Italian Literature (Spring)
ITALLIT 249 Love & Death in the Decameron (Spring)

Recent courses

ITALGEN 41N Imagining Italy
ITALGEN 166E Women's Voices in Contemporary Italian Literature
ITALGEN 230 Ariosto
ITALGEN 296E Italy: North and South