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Catherine M. Sama

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Catherine M. Sama is a professor of Italian at the University of Rhode Island. Her research focuses on Early Modern and 18th-Century Italian Women Writers, Correspondence Networks, The Italian Enlightenment, Italian Women Artists, and Gender Studies.[1] In 2013 she was a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship.[2] She also serves as a board member of the URI Center for the Humanities. She has edited the work and written a biography of the 18th-century Italian writer Elisabetta Caminèr Turra.

Education

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Sama earned her BA from the University of Virginia in 1985, where she majored in French and minored in Italian. She earned her PhD from Brown University in 1995.[3] She also serves as a board member of the URI Center for the Humanities.

Selected publications

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  • Italy's Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour. ISBN 0804759049
  • Elisabetta Caminer Turra, Selected Writings of an Eighteenth-Century Venetian Woman of Letters. ISBN 0226817687
  • "On Canvas and on the Page: Women Shaping Culture in Eighteenth-Century Venice", in Italy's Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour, edited by Paula Findlen, Wendy Roworth, and Catherine M. Sama (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009), 125-150; 383-393.
  • "Luisa Bergalli e le sorelle Carriera: un rapporto d'amicizia e di collaborazione professionale", in Luisa Bergalli poetessa drammaturga traduttrice critica letteraria, edited by Adriana Chemello (Mirano-Venice: Eidos, 2008), 59-75.
  • "Liberty, Equality, Frivolity! An Italian Critique of Fashion Periodicals".[4] Eighteenth-Century Studies vol. 37, no. 3 (2004): 389-414.
  • "Becoming Visible: a Biography of Elisabetta Caminer Turra (1751-96) During Her Formative Years".[5] Studi veneziani N.S. LXIII (2002): 349-388.

Selected honors and awards

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  • 2006-2007: URI Center for the Humanities Sabbatical Fellowship[6]
  • 2008: URI Center for the Humanities Visiting Scholar Grant, for the visit of Professor Antonia Arslan.[6]
  • 2008: URI Center for the Humanities Faculty Research Grant[6]
  • 2013: *URI Center for the Humanities Sabbatical Fellowship[6]
  • 2013: National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship[2]
  • 2017:URI Teaching Excellence Award

Further reading

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References

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  1. ^ "Catherine Sama". web.uri.edu. University of Rhode Island. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Fellowship Awards". www.neh.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  3. ^ "News from Brown". news.brown.edu. Brown University. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  4. ^ Sama, Catherine M. (21 May 2017). "Liberty, Equality, Frivolity! An Italian Critique of Fashion Periodicals". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 37 (3): 389–414. doi:10.1353/ecs.2004.0032. JSTOR 25098066. S2CID 162148044.
  5. ^ M., Sama, Catherine (21 May 2017). "Becoming Visible. A Biography of Elisabetta Caminer Turra (1751-1796) During Her Formative Years". Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ a b c d "Recent Grant and Fellowship Awards". web.uri.edu. Retrieved 22 May 2015.[permanent dead link]