In summer 2025, the Italian Program and the History Program will offer a faculty-led study abroad program titled Self-Fashioning in Rome: 1450-1600 at the Rome Center during Session 1, the five weeks from May 28 - June 26, 2025.

This course (ITAL 39803 and HIST 3980V and cross-listed with INST 40003, MRST 30203, ARHS 40103, ARHS 4010H3, HUMN 392H3 and HUMN 4250V with Honors sections available) counts towards the minor and major in Italian, history and international and global studies.

Self-Fashioning in Rome introduces students to the major literary, historical and artistic works dealing with the topic of self-fashioning through the close analysis of materials in cultural and historical contexts in the 15th and 16th centuries (1450-1600) in or around Rome.

Topics include notion of selfhood, creation of the authorial figure and its identity, relationships between authors and characters, idea of the individual, relationship with space, influence of science, power and authority, female artists and poets, and prime donne. Field trips include The Vatican Museums, Palazzo Farnese, Santa Domitilla Catacombs, Villa Farnesina, Musei Capitolini, Galleria Borghese, Villa d'Este in Tivoli and three days in Florence.

Feel free to browse the Hogs Abroad account or contact professors Daniela D'Eugenio at deugeni@uark.edu and Freddy Cristobal Dominguez at fcdoming@uark.edu should you have questions.