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Beatrice Fazio is a Lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago and affiliated faculty at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2024.
- PhD, University of Chicago, 2024
Fazio’s research spans Italian Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Literary Geographies and Cartography, Early Modern Science, and Intellectual History. Her work examines how physical and imagined spaces influenced literary production, knowledge circulation, and social-political hierarchies during the Renaissance. She also investigates intersections of early modern Italian literature and science, particularly non-canonical figures’ contributions to cosmological understanding.
Fazio’s scholarship includes an article forthcoming in Viator analyzing Renaissance Florentine humanism through geocriticism. She is preparing a critical edition of a sixteenth-century poem responding to Galileo’s discoveries, to be published in Palgrave Macmillan’s Early Modern Literature, Science, and Medicine series. Her research highlights trends in spatial representation and interdisciplinary approaches to literature and science.
- 2023 Wayne C. Booth Graduate Student Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Fazio has taught undergraduate Italian language and literature courses, including Beginning Elementary Italian, Vico’s New Science, and Machiavelli's Florence. Her work has been supported by grants from the Renaissance Society of America, the Modern Language Association, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the University of Chicago Arts, Science and Culture Initiative, and the National Library of Rome. She is currently completing her book Going the Distance: The Coherence of Tradition from Petrarch to Leopardi, which reevaluates Italy’s literary tradition through Giacomo Leopardi’s dialogues with Petrarch, Machiavelli, and Vico.
