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Beatrice Fazio is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, with affiliations at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Her research focuses on Renaissance early modern Italian literature and Mediterranean culture, particularly examining the ways physical and imagined spaces shape literary production and the circulation of knowledge. Fazio’s article ‘Writing City: Humanist Rhetoric Machiavelli’s Geocriticism’ (forthcoming Viator) explores the real and symbolic geographies that actively influenced the cultural identity of Renaissance Florentine humanism. Her work also engages with the intersections of early modern Italian literature and science, focusing on non-canonical figures that shaped cultural understandings of the cosmos. Currently, she is preparing an English translation and critical edition of a sixteenth-century poem that engages Galileo’s discoveries, set to be published in the Palgrave Macmillan Early Modern Literature, Science, Medicine series. Additionally, she is completing a book titled ‘Going Distance: Coherence Tradition Petrarch Leopardi’ that reflects on the critical legacy of early modernity in shaping Italy’s sense of identity. Fazio's strong scholarly output is supported by various fellowships and grants.
Department of Philosophy