Stefania Benini

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages; Undergraduate Chair, Italian

Italian 20 th Century Literature and Film. Her research focus in Italian literature involves Medievalism, from literature to cinema and theatre. Other topics of interests include Dante, Italian women’s poetry, and literary translation. She has published essays on Dante and Tommaso Landolfi, and is currently working on articles on Amelia Rosselli, Pier Paolo Pasolini and cinematic adaptation, together with a volume on a “sacrificial” reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s works. She has edited an anthology on cyberpunk writers and translated in Italian works of Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jack Kerouac.

• E-mail: sbenini@sas.upenn.edu
• Office: 550 Williams Hall
• Telephone: (215) 573-0196
• Fax: (215) 898-0933
• Office Hours: Spring 2008: MW 2:30-3:30 or by appt.