Faculty
Francesca L. Savoia
Associate Professor of Italian
Director of Graduate Studies in Italian
Office: 1328 E Cathedral of Learning
Tel: 412-624-6265
E-mail: savoia@pitt.edu
Education
Laurea in Lettere Moderne, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests & Fields of study
Italian Theater from the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century
Opera theory and criticism, seventeenth and eighteenth century Italian literature, interrelations of Literature and Music
Teaching
Undergraduate courses
- Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced Italian
- Italian Conversation
- Advanced Composition
- Phonetics
- Novel
- Short Fiction
- Lyric Poetry
- Theater
- Italian Cultural Heritage
- Italian Theater in Translation (PDF)
- *Italian Theatrical Workshop (PDF)
Graduate courses
- Seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth-century Italian literature
- Literary Criticism
- History of the Language
- Theater of the Renaissance
- Tasso
- Goldoni
- Foscolo
- *The International Republic of Letters in the 18th century (team-taught)
- *Literary Lives: Autobiographies and Letters in the 18th century (PDF)
* indicates newly created courses
Selected Publications
Books
"La cortesia di Leone e Ruggiero con la morte de Rodomonte" de Silvio Fiorillo, a cura di Francesca Savoia, Lucca: Maria Pacini-Fazzi Editore, 1997.
"La cantante e l'impresario" e altri metamelodrammi, Genova: Costa & Nolan, 1988
Articles
"Baretti e la Commedia dell'Arte," Seicento e Settecento, forthcoming in 2008.
"Creative Connections: The Theater Practicum and the integration of Language and Literature study," in Set the Stage! Italian Through Theater, Nicoletta Marini-Maio and Colleen Ryan-Scheutz eds., Yale University Press, 2008.
"Baretti e la Commedia dell'Arte," Seicento e Settecento," forthcoming in 2008.
"Creative Connections: The Theater Practicum and the integration of Language and Literature study," in Set the Stage! Italian Through Theater, Nicoletta Marini-Maio and Colleen Ryan-Scheutz eds., Yale University Press, 2008.
"Francesco Andreini (1548-1624)," "Isabella Andreini (1562-1604)," "Giambattista Andreini (1576-1654)," in Seventeenth-Century Italian Poets and Dramatists (Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 339), Albert N. Mancini and Glenn Palen Pierce eds., Detroit-New York-London: Gale, 2008., pp. 9-15, 16-27 and 28-35.
"Il punto su Goldoni librettista," Esperienze Letterarie 2007; 3-4: 229-48.
"Tragedia non è ...commedia non è: la tragedia alfieriana e il dibattito europeo sull'opera nel Settecento," in Alfieri Beyond Italy, proceedings of the international symposium on Vittorio Alfieri (Madison, WI September 27-28, 2002), Alessandria: 2004, Edizioni dell'Orso.
"Per i bicentenari di Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803): recenti percorsi di ricerca," Italica 2003; 4: 550-559
"Una storia tutta da raccontare: Luisa Bergalli-Gozzi (1703-1779)," in Essays in Honor of Marga Cottino-Jones, Ed. Laura Sanguineti-White, Fiesole (Firenze): Edizioni Cadmo, 2003, 109-122.
"Parini librettista: l'Ascanio in Alba," Rassegna della Letteratura Italiana 2000; 2: 388-419.
Awards and Honors
Spring 2007 Hewlett International Small Grant
Spring 2006 Hewlett International Small Grant
Spring 2006 Premio Speciale della Giuria della XVII edizione (2005) del Premio Internazionale di Poesia e letteratura "Nuove Lettere" (literary prize for an unpublished work of narrative short fiction)
Spring 2005 Small Travel Grant, Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Spring 2004 Faculty Fellowship, Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Spring 2002 Tina & David Bellet CAS Teaching Excellence Award
