October 2023

Maria Fallica is a Postdoctoral Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow. Her fellowship project, based at Florida State University and Sapienza University of Rome, is Folly and the Feminine in the Renaissance (FOLIE) on the reception of Erasmus’ Praise of Folly in the French and Italian Renaissance. She received her first Ph.D. in philology and history of the ancient world at Sapienza University of Rome in 2017; at the same university, she earned a Ph.D. in history of Christianity in 2020.

Associate professor Franz Prichard’s interdisciplinary research and teaching explore the literature, environmental thought, and visual media of contemporary Japan. In his first book, "Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan" (Columbia University Press, 2019) he explored the ways Japanese writers, artists, and critics reinvented their work in response to Japan’s intensive urbanization.