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Luke Rosenau
Teaching Fellow
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Biography
I completed a Masters in Romance Languages at the University of Oregon in December 2007. My Masters thesis, Un Mondo Relativo: L'Ironia Narrative nei Promessi Sposi, dealt with Manzoni's masterpiece in terms of ironic discrepancy created through the intervention of the narrative voice as a means of relativizing the numerous viewpoints inherent in the structure of the novel. This work came about from an interest in concepts of Romantic Irony from Schlegel, Kiekergaard and Hegel to Bachtin and Lukács.
I came to Columbia, in part, to explore Giacomo Leopardi as a crucial figure in the emergence of the Fantastic in Italian literature. The crisis of thought so clearly constructed by Leopardi can serve as a point of departure for examining a genre that seeks to challenge the very limits of rationality and avoids definite resolutions. I am also interested in researching the birth of the Scapigliatura amid the crisis of Romantic culture and the values of post-unitary Italy as a polemical movement capable of utilizing a secondary genre to lambaste everything from modern nationalism and militarism to religion and clericalism.
Degrees:
BA magna cum laude in Italian with Minor in Spanish, University of Oregon, December 2007
MA in Romance Languages, University of Oregon, December 2005
Teaching:
First Year Italian (101, 102 & 103)
Cultural Legacies of Italy, Teaching Fell
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