Italian Literature Scholar to Give Mazzocco Memorial Lecture

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Monica Calabritto of Hunter College and the City University of New York Graduate Center, will give the third annual Elizabeth Mazzocco Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, April 17 at 5:30 p.m. in E470 South College.

Calabritto will speak on “Emotions on Trial: Legal Documents and Criminal Proceedings of Violence, Murder and Insanity in Early Modern Italy.”

Calabritto teaches Italian literature and comparative literature at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she directs the Italian specialization. Her research focuses on the interactions between medicine and literature and medicine and law in early modern Italy. In her current work, she studies the relationship among early modern, medicine, law and social memory in narratives of homicidal insanity in Italy.

Elizabeth Mazzocco was director of the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages and professor of Italian at the university from 1990 until her death in 2014.

The event is co-sponsored by Five Colleges, department of languages, literatures and cultures, and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts’ Elizabeth Mazzocco Lecture Fund.