{"id":164462,"date":"2016-06-03T11:24:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T15:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=164462"},"modified":"2016-06-03T15:27:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T19:27:49","slug":"rochester-italianist-receives-honorary-professorship-164462","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/rochester-italianist-receives-honorary-professorship-164462\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester Italianist receives honorary professorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

This spring, the University of the Pacific (UP) in Lima, Peru, conferred an honorary professorship on Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio, associate professor of Italian in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures. The designation recognizes her scholarly contributions to the field of Italian studies and comparative literature as well as her efforts in fostering a dialogue among Italianists worldwide.<\/p>\n

Stocchi-Perucchio\u2019s relationship with scholars of world and Italian literature at the University of the Pacific began in 2010 and grew around issues of mutual interest. These include the study of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, his minor works and his epic poem, the Divine Comedy<\/em>, both in a comparative context and in relation to political philosophy, economics, and the arts.<\/p>\n

Since then, she has worked closely with professor Jorge Wiesse Rebagliati, current chair of the Department of the Humanities at UP, and Carlos Gatti Murriel, professor emeritus from the same department, on publications, lectures, conferences, and panel discussions. Among these are three international conferences: \u201cDante and the Arts: Textual and Intertextual Perspectives\u201d (held at Rochester under the auspices of the Humanities Project in 2013), \u201cPurgatorios\/Purgatori,\u201d and \u201cPensare el dinero\u201d (the latter two held at UP in 2013 and 2015, respectively).<\/p>\n