Visiting Scholars
Italian Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences
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Andrea Carteny is an associate professor of the history of Eastern Europe, modern history, and the history of international relations, as well听as听director of听CEMAS (Centro di Ricerca Cooperazione con l鈥橢urasia, il Mediterraneo e l鈥橝frica Sub-sahariana), an interdepartmental research center,听at the听Sapienza University of Rome. Carteny听received both a Ph.D. in the history of Europe and M.A. in humanities from the Sapienza University of Rome. Carteny's research focuses primarily on the concept of national identity, nationalism, and ethnocentrism, as well as听Eurasian History and pan-Turanism. In Spring 2021, he is at Notre Dame, hosted by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, as the recipent of a visiting professorship sponsored by the Italian Fulbright Commission, the Nanovic Institute, the College of Arts and Letters, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the 糖心Vlog.
Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Fellow (2019-21)
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Matteo Favaretto holds a Laurea in Classics from the University of Padua, a Ph.D. in Italian literature from the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and a Ph.D. in Italian literature from Royal Holloway, University of London. At Notre Dame, he will be working on a project entitled "Repertorio dei prosimetri in volgare dalle Origini al 1500," funded by a Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Global Fellowship. After two years at Notre Dame, Dr. Favaretto will spend a year at Ca' Foscari completing the project.
Visiting Ph.D. Students
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(Fall 2020)
Catherine Bloomer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of听Italian听and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society听at听Columbia University, where she obtained her M.A. and M.Phil. in Italian literature. She holds an M.F.A. in fiction from The New School and a B.A. in Italian and English literature with a concentration in Creative Writing from Barnard College. As a Research Visitor at the University of Notre Dame, she will focus on her dissertation that treats disability in Dante鈥檚 works and times.听
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(Fall 2020)
Luca Naponiello is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Italian and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. His research interests include 20th-century literature with a particular focus on folktales, ecocriticism, and narratology. As a Research Visitor at Notre Dame, he will work on his dissertation, in which he investigates ecological concerns in Italo Calvino鈥檚 work and the agency of natural elements in his Fiabe italiane. He studied Modern Philology at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, the oldest continually operating university in the world. During his undergraduate career, he spent an academic year at the University of Warwick as an Erasmus fellow. Before moving to the United States, he taught Latin and Italian in several high schools in the Bologna area. He is currently the rapporteur for the Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies.