Tuesday, 11/19: "Resourceful Women" Guest Lecture

Angela Porcarelli is an Associate Teaching Professor of Italian in the Department of French and Italian at Emory University. Her research primarily focuses on early modern theories and literary expressions of comedy, with a particular emphasis on the tradition of novelle di beffa (tricksters' stories) as established in Boccaccio’s Decameron. Currently, she is working on an analysis of Lodovico Castelvetro’s Poetica di Aristotele vulgarizzata et sposta (1505-1551), investigating how the author integrates elements of Plato’s philosophy into his commentary to justify comedic expressions that diverge from Aristotle’s definition of comedy. You can contact her at angela.porcarelli@emory.edu

Maria Franca Sibau is associate professor of Chinese studies at Emory University. Her research interests include late imperial vernacular fiction, drama, and Confucian traditions. Her book, Reading for the Moral: Exemplarity and the Confucian Moral Imagination in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Short Fiction (SUNY, 2018), discusses the representation of exemplary figures across the Five Cardinal Relationships in late Ming vernacular stories. She has published on filial exemplarity, marginal characters, fiction commentary, and the modern repackaging of Confucian Classics. Her current research is on comparative novella traditions (Italy and China) and the literary representation of motherhood in late imperial fiction and drama. You can contact her at maria.sibau@emory.edu