Contributors
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Erminia Ardissino teaches Italian Literature at the Università di Torino. She earned her MA in Romance Languages at the University of Georgia, her PhD at Yale, and her Dottorato di Ricerca at the Università Cattolica in Milan. She has published several essays on Dante, Petrarch, Humanism, Tasso, baroque Italian literature and Manzoni. Her other publications include Tempo liturgico e tempo storico nella “Commedia” di Dante (2009), La scrittura dell’esperienza: Saggio sulle lettere di Galileo (forthcoming) and a selection of Galileo’s letters with commentary (2008). She has organized two conferences on Dante and has also published on teaching Italian as a second language.
Albert Russell Ascoli is Terrill Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author, most recently, of Dante and the Making of a Modern Author (2008) and ‘A Local Habitation and a Name’: Imagining Histories in the Italian Renaissance (2011). He has also published numerous essays and is the editor of a number of collaborative volumes, including, with William West, Italy in the Drama of Europe, a special issue of Renaissance Drama.
Zygmunt G. Barański is Notre Dame Professor of Dante & Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame and Serena Professor of Italian Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. He has published extensively on Dante, medieval Italian literature, and modern Italian literature and culture.
Susanna Barsella is Assistant Professor of Italian at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatutres and the Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University. She received her PhD in Italian Literature at the Johns Hopkins University. Her most recent publications include In the Light of the Angels: Angelology and Cosmology in Dante’s Divina Commedia (2010), “Il riso dei padri: il caso di Madonna Filippa. Dec. VI,7” (Humanistica, 2009), “La parola icastica: strategie figurative nelle novelle del Decameron” (Italianistica, 2009). She is currently co-editing, [End Page S281] with Francesco Ciabattoni, The Humanist’s Workshop: Essays in Honor of Salvatore Camporeale, a special issue of Italian Quarterly.
Theodore J. Cachey Jr. is professor and chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. He specializes in Italian Medieval and Renaissance literature. He has authored, edited and co-edited several books, including, with Zygmunt G. Barański, Dante and Petrarch: Anti-dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition (2009). His essays have appeared in Annali d’Italianistica, Belfagor, California Italian Studies, Intersezioni, The Italianist, Italica, The History of Cartography, Modern Language Notes, Schede umanistiche, and Rivista di letteratura italiana.
Angela Matilde Capodivacca, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor of Italian Language and Literature and Renaissance Studies at Yale, received her PhD in Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley with a dissertation on the relationship between curiosity and the imagination in Early Modern Italy. Her research interests include critical theory, comparative literature, the history of ideas and gender studies.
Mary Ann McDonald Carolan is Associate Professor and Chair of Modern Languages & Literatures and Director of the Italian Studies program at Fairfield University. Recently she has published articles on Dante, Serao, Scola and Özpetek. She is currently at work on a manuscript that examines the intersections of national cinemas of the United States and Italy, tentatively entitled The Transatlantic Gaze: Visions of Italy in American Film.
Jo Ann Cavallo is associate professor of Italian at Columbia University, where she teaches Renaissance literature. She has authored several monographs on chivalric literature, and is currently at work on a book about the world beyond Europe in the Italian romance epic.
Unn Falkeid, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow of Italian Literature at the University of Oslo. She has written Petrarca og det moderne selvet (2007) and edited Dante: A Critical Reappraisal (2008). Among other published articles on Petrarch and Dante, Falkeid authored the introductory essay to the Norwegian translation of Giuseppe Mazzotta’s Cosmopoiesis (2009). She is currently researching the practices of cultural transmission during the Avignon papacy and co-editing the Cambridge Companion to Petrarch with Albert Russell Ascoli. [End Page S282]
Warren Ginsberg is Knight Professor of Humanities at the University of Oregon. He has written extensively on early and medieval literature and is the editor of several works in the...
