Contributors
- Contributors
John Alcorn is principal lecturer in Italian studies, Trinity College, Connecticut, where he is fortunate to teach mainly seminars in his research areas. In this paper for Pedagogy he explains how he teaches aspects of his research project, "Justice Hell: Principles, Patterns, and Metaphors of Retribution in Dante's Inferno."
Jason Aleksander is associate professor of philosophy at Saint Xavier University in Chicago, where he regularly teaches undergraduate courses in medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of human nature. He also regularly teaches a course on the Divine Comedy that satisfies an interdisciplinary studies capstone requirement for SXU's general education curriculum. His current research focuses on the works of Dante and Nicholas of Cusa.
Julie M. Barst is assistant professor of English at Siena Heights University, where she specializes in nineteenth-century British literature, women's studies, world literature, and composition. She coauthored "Women Shaping Their World: An Honors Colloquium" (2012) with Julie D. Lane and Christine Stewart-Nuñez and "Peer Review across Disciplines: Improving Student Performance in the Honors Humanities Classroom" with April Brooks, Leda Cempellin, and Barb Kleinjan, which appeared in Honors in Practice (2011). She has also published articles on the nineteenth-century British empire in Prose Studies and other journals.
Michelle Bolduc is associate professor of French and translation at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Author of The Medieval Poetics of Contraries (1996), her current research explores the inventive intersections of translation and rhetoric in late medieval vernacular texts.
Yvonne Bruce is a lecturer in English at several institutions of higher education in the Cleveland, Ohio, area. Her primary interests are Renaissance literature and practical pedagogy. [End Page 199]
Anne L. Clark is professor of religion at the University of Vermont. Her research focuses on medieval women's religious lives, monasticism, and the role of materiality in religious life.
Melissa Conway is the head of Special Collections and Archives at the University of California, Riverside. She holds a PhD in medieval studies from Yale University, with an emphasis on book arts. Her former institutions include the Library of Congress Rare Book and Manuscripts Division, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. Since 1991 she has also served as a curatorial consultant to a private rare book and manuscript collection in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. With coauthor Lisa Fagin Davis, she recently completed a directory of 475 institutions in North America with medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in their holdings.
Joanna H. Drell is associate professor of medieval history at the University of Richmond. She received her BA from Wellesley College and MA/PhD at Brown University. A scholar of medieval southern Italy, she has published widely on the subjects of family, kinship, and identity. Her latest scholarship reconsiders the scholarly and geographic boundaries that have long defined the study of medieval Italy.
Louis I. Hamilton is associate professor at Drew University teaching the history of Christianity. He is the author of A Sacred City: Consecrating Churches and Reforming Society in Eleventh-Century Italy (2010) and is coeditor with Christopher Bellitto of Reforming the Church before Modernity: Patterns, Problems and Approaches (2005) and with Stefano Riccioni of Rome Re-imagined: Twelfth-Century Jews, Christians and Muslims Encounter the Eternal City (2011).
Christopher Kleinhenz is the Carol Mason Kirk Professor Emeritus of Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught for almost forty years. Among his publications are The Early Italian Sonnet (1986), Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (2004), and a translation of Dante's Fiore and Detto d'Amore (2000) as well as numerous articles and chapters on medieval Italian literature. In 2004 he received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has served as president of the American Association of Teachers of Italian (1999-2003) and of the American Boccaccio Association (1993-97). In 2009 he directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, on Dante in Italy, and was also elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2009. [End Page 200]
Catherine Mainland received her MA and PhD in Germanic languages and literatures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 2006. While there, she...
