Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry

Notes on Contributors

n o t e s o n c o n t r i b u t o r s Piero Boitani is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Rome, “La Sapienza.” His many publications include The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature (1989), The Shadow of Ulysses: Figures of a Myth (1994), and The Bible and Its Rewritings (1999). Oliver Davies is Professor of Christian Doctrine at King’s College, University of London. He is the author of Meister Eckhart: MysticalTheologian (1991), A Theology of Compassion: Metaphysics of Difference and the Renewal of Tradition (2001), and The Creativity of God: World, Eucharist, Reason (2004). Theresa Federici carried out post-graduate research at the University of Reading, and teaches in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Durham. David F. Ford is Regius Professor of Divinity and Fellow of Selwyn College at the University of Cambridge. His publications include Self and Salvation: Being Transformed (1999), Shaping Theology: Engagements in a Religious and Secular World (2007), and Christian Wisdom: Desiring God and Learning in Love (2007). Peter S. Hawkins is Professor of Religion and Literature at Yale University . His publications include Dante’s Testaments: Essays in Scriptural Imagination (1999), The Poets’ Dante: Twentieth-Century Reflections (coedited with Rachel Jacoff, 2001), and Dante: A Brief History (2006). Douglas Hedley is Reader in Hermeneutics and Metaphysics and Fellow of Clare College at the University of Cambridge. His publications include Coleridge, Philosophy and Religion: Aids to Reflection and the Mirror of the Spirit (2000), Living Forms of the Imagination (2008), and Platonism at the Origins of Modernity: Studies on Platonism and Early Modern Philosophy (co-edited with Sarah Hutton, 2008). 356 Robin Kirkpatrick is Professor of Italian and English Literatures and Fellow of Robinson College at the University of Cambridge. His publications include Dante’s“Paradiso” and the Limitations of Modern Criticism (1978), Dante’s “Inferno”: Difficulty and Dead Poetry (1987), and a verse translation of the Commedia (2006–7). Christian Moevs is Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame, where he is a Fellow of the Medieval Institute. His publications include The Metaphysics of Dante’s “Comedy” (2005). Vittorio Montemaggi is Assistant Professor of Religion and Literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also Concurrent Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology and Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. His publications include essays on the theology of the Commedia. Paola Nasti is Lecturer in Italian at the University of Reading. Her publications include Favole d’amore e “saver profondo”: La tradizione salomonica in Dante (2007). John Took is Professor of Dante Studies at University College London. His publications include L’Etterno Piacer: Aesthetic Ideas in Dante (1984), Dante’s Phenomenology of Being (2000), and Il Fiore: Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary (2004). Matthew Treherne is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Leeds and Co-Director of the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies. His publications include articles on Dante and on Renaissance culture, and Forms of Faith: Religious Culture in Sixteenth-Century Italy (co-edited with Abigail Brundin, 2009). Denys Turner is Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale University. He is the author of Eros and Allegory: Medieval Exegesis of the Song of Songs (1995), The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism (1995), and Faith, Reason and the Existence of God (2004). Notes on Contributors 357 ...