italian studies at rutgers

GRADUATE RESEARCH

Recent Graduate Student Research Related to Italian Studies

Dissertations in Progress in Fields Related to Italian Studies at Rutgers , the State University

Art History

Abigail Berler	"The Origins of Christian Decorative Systems in Roman Catacombs" (Advisor: Archer St. Clair-Harvey)
Meghan Callahan	"The Architectural and Artistic Patronage of Suor Domenica dal Paradiso" (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam)
Sarah Diebel	“The Structure of Memory in Italian Renaissance Painting” (Advisor: Rona Goffen)
Lois Munemitsu Eliason	"The Fifteenth-Century Artistic Commissions and Medici Patronage at Santo Stefano, Prato " (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam)
Joseph Giuffre	“Giulio Romano in Raphael's Shop” (Advisor: Rona Goffen)
Christine Goulding	“Painting is Nothing Other Than Mute Poetry: A Critical Analysis of Agnolo Bronzino's Burlesque Poems and Male Portraits, 1530-1530” (Advisor: Rona Goffen)
Theresa Grupico	“Urban Planning and Temple Design at Selinus ( Selinunte ,Sicily ): Temple E” (Advisor: John Kenfield)
Emma Guest	"Virgil's Bucolic Poetry and Italian Renaissance Art," (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam)
Alison Poe	"The Frescoes of the Hypogaeum of the Aurelii in Rome” (Advisor: Archer St. Clair-Harvey)
Katherine Poole	“The Art of Conquest: Medici Patronage in Pisa and Siena , 1537-1609” (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam)
Suzan Slominski	“Bernini's Tomb of Urban VIII in St. Peter's: A Study of Art and Papal Power in the Context of the Counter-Reformation” (Advisor: Tod A. Marder)
Aileen June Wang	“Michelangelo's Self-Fashioning in Text and Image” (Advisor: Rona Goffen)
Patricia Zalamea	“Diana and Actaeon: Visualizing Myths and Identity during the Early Modern Period” (Advisor: Rona Goffen)

ITALIAN

Alberto Bianchi	"Il cielo vuoto. Cesare Pavese e la deriva della modernità" (Advisor: Andrea Baldi)
Paul D'Agostino	"Judging Judgment in Dino Buzzati" (Advisor: Andrea Baldi)
Lucy DeLogu	"Identità e storia nella narrativa di Anna Banti" (Advisor: Andrea Baldi)
Eduardo Fichera	"Ineffability in Dante" (Advisor: Alessandro Vettori)
Samuel Ghelli	"The City of Rome in Italian Literature between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Century" (Advisor: Alessandro Vettori)
Elvira Giosi	"Beatrice's Prophesy in Purgatorio XXXIII" (Advisor: Alessandro Vettori)
Louise Hipwell	"Carnival and the Carnivalesque in the Theater of Carlo Goldoni" (Advisor: Laura S. White)
Jennifer Holt	"Dialect and the Social Denouncement: The Sicilian Mystery Novel of Andrea Camilleri and Leonardo Sciascia" (Advisor: David Marsh)
Emanuele Occhipinti	"Viaggi e identità: taccuini, lettere, reportages e saggi del XIX e XX secolo"(Advisor: Umberto Mariani)
Paolo Pucci	"Forme e linguaggi della sessualità nella novellistica italiana del Rinascimento" (Advisor: Andrea Baldi)
Fabio Ruggirello	"'Dall'Illisso all'onde d'Arno.' L'immaginario della tragedia italiana nel Rinascimento" (Advisor: Andrea Baldi)
Mary Sisler	"Benvenuto Cellini's 'Vita'" (Advisor: Andrea Baldi)
Sandy Waters	"The Intradiegetic Narrator in the Italian Historical Novel" (Advisor: Elizabeth Leake)

Recently Completed Dissertations in Fields Related to Italian Studies at Rutgers, the State University

Art History

Francesca Bacci	“Impressions in Light: Photographs of Sculptures by Medardo Rosso (1858-1928)” (Advisor: Jack Spector) 2004
Costanza Barbieri	"Florentine Disegno , Venetian Colorito , and the Viterbo Pieta by Sebastiano and Michelangelo" (Advisor: Rona Goffen) 1999
Amy Bloch	"Ritual Performance in Renaissance Florence and the Sculpture of Lorenzo Ghiberti" (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam) 2004
Louise Caldi	“The King and his Brother: Simone Martini's Louis of Toulouse Crowning Robert of Anjou and the Visual Language of Power” (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam) 2001
Andrea Campbell	"The Social and Artistic Context of the Baptistry in Siena" (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam) 2000
David G. Carroll	“Giorgio de Chirico: A Confrontation with Modernity” (Advisor: Jack Spector) 2003
Victor Coonin	"The Sculpture of Desiderio da Settignano," (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam) 1995
Adrienne DeAngelis	'La Virtù Fa Sempre Vivo': Danese Cattaneo and the Monument to Giano Fregoso in Sant'Anastasia, Verona" (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam) 1997
Phillip Earenfight	"The Bigallo and the Florentine Renaissance Loggia" (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam) 1999
Lois Munemitsu Eliason	"The Fifteenth-Century Artistic Commissions and Medici Patronage at Santo Stefano, Prato " (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam) 2004
Lisa Festa	“Representations of Saint Cecilia in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Painting and Sculpture” (Advisor: Catherine R. Puglisi) 2004
Kathleen Enz Finken	"The Programmatic Sources of the Earliest Christian Art: Salvation History in the Catacomb of Callistus" (Advisor: Archer St.Clair-Harvey ) 1998
Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio	“'To Demonstrate the Greatness of his Spirit': A Contextual Study of Leone Leoni's Casa degli Omenoni” (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam) 2000
Linda Koch	"The Santa Fina Chapel in San Gimignano: The Promotion of a Female Saint and the Early Christian Revival in the Renaissance" (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam) 1991
Allison Lee Palmer	“The Gesu E Maria On The Via Del Corso: Building In Rome After The Counter-Reformation” (Advisor: Tod Marder) 1994
Stephanie Leone	"The Palazzo Pamphilj in the Piazza Navona, Rome (1470-1655): Urban Context, Architecture, Function, and Patronage" (Advisor: Tod A. Marder) 2001
Thomas Loughman	“Spinello Aretino, Benedetto Alberti and the Olivetans: Late Trecento Patronage at San Miniato al Monte” (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam) 2002
Stephen Lucey	"The Church of Santa Maria Antiqua, Rome: Defining the Contexts" (Advisor: Archer St.Clair-Harvey ) 1999
Victoria Reed	“Salome with the Head of John the Baptist in Renaissance Art: A Contextual Study” (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam) 2001
Claire Renkin	"Correggio and the Art of Arousal in Religious Painting" (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam)1998
Marice Rose	“The Iconography of Female Adornment in Late Antiquity” (Advisor: Archer St.Clair-Harvey ) 2001
Zbynek Smetana	"Titian's Mirror: Self-Portrait and Self-Image in the Late Works" (Advisor: Rona Goffen) 1998
Stephanie Smith	"Gold-glass Vessels of the Late Roman Empire: Production, Context, and Function” (Advisor: Archer St. Clair-Harvey) 2000
Kristen van Ausdall	"Tabernacle of the Sacrament: Eucharistic Imagery and Classicism in the Early Renaissance" (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam) 1994
Dorothy Verkerk	"Liturgy and Narrative in the Exodus Cycle of the Ashburnham Pentateuch” (Advisor: Archer St. Clair-Harvey) 1992
Susan Vick	"Pictura' and the Concept of the Cognate Arts in Florence" (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam) 2001
Elizabeth Vogel	"Sanctity Set in Stone: Agostino di Duccio's Oratorio di S. Bernardino in Perugia and Popular Religion" (Advisor: Sarah Blake McHam) 1999
Lilian H. Zirpolo	“Pietro Da Cortona's Frescoes in the Villa Sacchetti in Castelfusano” (Advisor: Catherine R. Puglisi) 1995

HISTORY

Nancy C. Carnevale	“Living Translation: Language and Italian Immigrants in the U.S., 1890-1944,” (Advisor: Virginia Yans) 2001
Anthony Di Battista	"Sienese Urban Structures and the Vita Civile, 1287-1355," (Advisors: Rudolph Bell and William Connell) 1995
Maria Farina	"The Revolutionary Components of Sulla's Civil War," Dissertation (Advisor: John Lenaghan) 1995
Linda Reeder	"Sicilian Women and Mass Migration, 1880-1930," (Advisor: Rudolph Bell) 1995

ITALIAN

Maria Adelaide Basile	"Sogni e visioni: l'astrologia medievale nell'opera di Dante Alighieri" (Advisor: Franco Ferrucci) 2003
Elisa Biagini	“La opera poetica di Alda Merini tra il 1953 e il 1984” (Advisor: Umberto Mariani) 2000
Richard Bonanno	“Stylistic and Thematic Elements in Michelangelo's ‘Rime'” (Advisor: Guido Guarino) 2000
Cynthia Constance Capone	“The Representation of Women in Boccaccio's ‘Decameron'” (Advisor: Guido Guarino) 1992
Aldo H. Collura	“The Concept of History As It Developed from the Medieval Chronicles to the Florentine Histories of Renaissance Writers” (Advisor: Guido Guarino) 1992
David Robert Del Principe	“Rebellion, Death, and Aesthetics in Scapigliatura: A Comparative Study of Psychosexual, Gothic, and Decadent Experimentalism in the Works of Ugo Tarchetti and the Scapigliati” (Advisor: Franco Ferrucci) 1993
Elisabetta Maria Ferrero	“Antonio Pozzi's Poetry: An Introduction and Translation”(Advisor: Umberto Mariani) 1995
Rita Gagliano	“Mass Culture and Reader Inscription in Cannibale Literature (Aldo Nove, Tiziano Scarpa, Isabella Santacroce)” (Advisor: Umberto Mariani) 2002
Flora Ghezzo	“Corpi imprigionati: Scritture femminili del ventennio” (Advisor: Umberto Mariani) 2001
Maria Luisa Gozzi	L'alata incongruenza: itinerari marinettiani dalla terra al cielo” (Advisor: Franco Ferrucci) 1996
Andrea Guiati	“Giorgio Bassani: Il poeta ed il narratore” (Advisor: Umberto Mariani) 1991
Julia M. Kisacky	“Magic in Boiardo and Ariosto” (Advisor: Laura S. White) 1995
Guido Francesco Mascagni	“I “Vittoriali'di Gabriele d'Annunzio: arti figurative e décor nel romanzo dannunziano” (Advisor: Franco Ferrucci) 1992
Francesco Mansi	“Il genere comico nella contrariforma: tra Bernardino Pino e Sforza Oddi” (Advisor: Guido Guarino) 1992
Gregory Michael Pell	“Memory's Conquest Over Absence and Death in Eugenio Montale's Poetry” (Advisor: Umberto Mariani) 2000
Teresa Luisa Picarazzi	“Maternal Desire in Natalia Ginzburg: Bonded and Separating Narrator Daughters” (Advisor: Umberto Mariani) 1993
Patricia Lyn Richards	“Theme and Literary Model in the ‘Rime' of Giovanni della Casa” (Advisor: Guido Guarino) 1993
Tommasina Gabriele-Smith	“Eros and Language in the Works of Italo Calvino” (Advisor: Franco Ferrucci) 1991
Hanna M. Syzmanska-Serkowska	“Federico Tozzi medioevale” (Advisor: Franco Ferrucci) 1991
Snjezana Smodlaka	“Il reale e il fiabesco in ‘Lo conto de le Cunti'Di Giambattista Basile” (Advisor: Laura S. White) 1994
Marisa Savina Trubiano	“ ‘La verita e che sono': Ennio Flaiano and his Significance in Italian Cinema and Literature” (Advisor: Umberto Mariani) 2000
Marsdin Thomas Van Order	“Representations of Women in the Works of Cesare Pavese” (Advisor: Umberto Mariani) 199
Elena Urgnani	“Massimo Bontempelli's Fiction: Futurism, Surrealism, Conformism, Irony” (Advisor: Umberto Mariani) 1990
Simona Wright	“Elementi e motivi ‘neobarrocho' nell'opera di Italo Calvino” (Advisor: Umberto Mariani) 1995
Rosa Zagari	“Il proverbo come espediente tematico nelle opera di Giovanni Verga” (Advisor: Umberto Mariani) 1998
Michael J. Zebrak	“Metanoia and Apostasy: The Journey of the Self in the ‘Confessions'of Augustine and the ‘Canzionere' of Petrarch” (Advisor: Guido Guarino) 1994