Research/Areas of Interest
Italian language, contemporary Italian literature, translation, foodways
Education
- MA, Middlebury College, Middlebury (village), United States, 2018
- MA, Salve Regina University, Newport, United States, 2013
Biography
Rose Facchini holds an MA in Italian Literary Studies from the Italian Language School at Middlebury College and an MA in International Relations from Salve Regina University. She is the Editor and the Italian Translator Editor for the International Poetry Review (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and a Contributing Editor for the Journal of the History of Ideas.
Her main research focuses on the intersection between Italian studies and environmental humanities with a focus on climate change and foodways. She also explores how Italy imagines the rapidly changing landscape through speculative fiction, and how this correlates in the real world with policymaking and sociocultural adjustments.
She has received several fellowships and grants, including the Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Endowment. A former participant in the Bread Loaf Translators' Conference, her translations have have been published in a wide range of journals and by various publishing houses, such as Asymptote, Snuggly Books, and West Branch, and her research appears in Military Medicine.
Facchini has experience teaching the Italian language, Italian foodways, Italian history through film, and Italian literature.
Her main research focuses on the intersection between Italian studies and environmental humanities with a focus on climate change and foodways. She also explores how Italy imagines the rapidly changing landscape through speculative fiction, and how this correlates in the real world with policymaking and sociocultural adjustments.
She has received several fellowships and grants, including the Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Endowment. A former participant in the Bread Loaf Translators' Conference, her translations have have been published in a wide range of journals and by various publishing houses, such as Asymptote, Snuggly Books, and West Branch, and her research appears in Military Medicine.
Facchini has experience teaching the Italian language, Italian foodways, Italian history through film, and Italian literature.