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Areas of Specialization
Boccaccio, Dante, medieval and early Renaissance studies, the Italian novella, teaching and study of literature in the hypertext environment, Italian historical and descriptive linguistics, language teaching in a communicative context.
Departmental Responsibilities
Director of Italian Studies, director of the local chapter of Gamma Kappa Alpha Italian Honorary Society, Commonwealth College Liaison, participant in UMass' Medieval Studies Certificate Program.
Work in Progress
- Editor of: Wlassics, Tibor. Dante’s Inferno: An English Terza Rima Translation for the Close Reader. Proposal accepted by the University of Notre Dame Press for the Devers Dante Series.
- Decameron, with Wayne Storey and Massimo Riva. A commercial multimedia DVD, produced in association with the Literary Encyclopedia and Touch&Turn, will contain digitized versions of the Hamilton 90 and Paris 482 autographs, the Valdarfer incunabulum (1471) and Augsburg German translation (1490) together with abundant secondary materials and texts.
- Editor-in-chief, Heliotropia, a peer-reviewed online journal of Boccaccio Studies and official publication of the American Boccaccio Association.
- Editor of The Virtual Humanities Lab, an NEH-sponsored project that makes available original scholarly and pedagogical resources related to the study of the Humanities in Italy from 1300 to 1500 (including the Project Conclusiones CM and the Esposizioni Project).
- Editor of the Decameron Web, an NEH-sponsored hypermedia archive of information designed for the teaching and study of Boccaccio’s masterpiece.
- Editor of the Progetto Pico, a philological, hypermedia project dedicated to the Oratio de hominis dignitate of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
- Site editor, Lectura Dantis Online.
Publications:
Books
- Expositions on Dante’s Comedy, by Giovanni Boccaccio, an English translation with introduction and copious notes (U. of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2009).
- Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man, with Massimo Riva and Francesco Borghesi. (U. of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2008).
- Concordance to the Decameron (2001).
- Keen and Violent Remedies: Social Satire and the Grotesque in Masuccio Salernitano’s Novellino. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. (Rev. in: Italica 78.2 [2001]: 259-60; Fifteenth-Century Studies 28 [2002]: 268-69; Rivista di studi italiani 20.2 [2002]: 269-72; Speculum 79.2 [2004]: 541-42; Modern Language Review 99.1 [2004]: 214-15.)
Articles
- “Il pericolo che viene dal mare: il Novellino di Masuccio Salernitano tra xenofobia e misoginia.” Mediterraneopoesis, Roberta Morosini and Cristina Perissinotto, eds. Roma: Salerno, 2007. pp. 235-52.
- “Masuccio Salernitano’s Gusto dell’orrido.” The Italian Novella, Gloria Allaire, ed., New York: Routledge, 2003. 119-136. (Rev. in: Renaissance Quarterly 56.4 [2003]: 1169-72.)
- “Adaptation and Alienation in the Tavianis’ Male di luna.” Dialoghi 4.1-2 (2000): 119-127.
- “Patterns of Meaning in the Decameron,” in Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio’s Decameron, James McGregor, ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2000. pp. 51-62. (Rev. in: Modern Language Review 96.4 [2001]: 1102-3; Studi sul Boccaccio [2003] 265-7; Speculum 78.3 [2003]: 961-62).
- “‘Non meno di compassion piena che dilettevole’: Notes on Compassion in Boccaccio.” Italian Quarterly 143-146 (2000): 107-125.
- “The «Corpse on a Horse» from a Fabliau to the Nineteenth Century.” La questione romantica 7-8 (1999): 111-125.
- “La novella tra Testo e Ipertesto: il Decameron come modello,” with Massimo Riva, La narrativa italiana dal primato allo scacco, Gian Mario Anselmi, ed., Roma: Carocci, 1998. pp. 65-85.
- “Derailment of Closure: The Father-Son Enigma in Fellini.” Italica 74.3 (1997): 392-407.
- “Dante’s Re-education of Conscience (Paradiso XVII),” Lectura Dantis 18-19 (1996): 91-110.
Encyclopedia Entries and Reviews
- voces: “Genoa,” “Naples,” “Siena,” “Pavia,” “Della Scala,” “Bernardino of Siena” and “Charles of Anjou,” Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Oxford: Oxford UP, forthcoming.
- Review article: The Decameron: First Day in Perspective, Elissa Weaver, ed. (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2004) Annali d’Italianistica 25 (2007): 448-50.
- Review article: Piotr Salwa, La narrativa tardogotica toscana (Fiesole: Cadmo, 2004) Italica 84.1 (2007): 124-127.
- vox: “Novella,” Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, ed., New York: Routledge, 2006.
- voces: “Boccaccio,” “Decameron,” “Masuccio Salernitano,” The Literary Encyclopedia, Robert Clark, ed. 2006.
- Review article: Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Historia de duobus amantibus, D. Pirovano, tr. & ed. (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2001) Annali d’Italianistica 22 (2004): 427-430.
- voces: “Anonimo Genovese,” “Bindo Bonichi,” “Dante da Maiano,” “Galvano Flamma,” “Guido Orlandi,” “Lancelot,” “Lapo Gianni,” “Lorenzo Moschi,” “Matteo Correggiaio,” “Panuccio del Bagno,” “Slavery,” “Tristan,” “Troy, Legend of” and “Zanobi da Strada,” The Medieval Italy Encyclopedia, Christopher Kleinhenz, ed. New York: Routledge, 2003.
- voces: “Francesco d’Accorso,” “St. Anselm,” “Friar Augustine,” “Marcus Junius Brutus,” “Gaius Cassius,” “Catalano dei Malavolti,” “Sciarra Colonna,” “Corso Donati,” “Fortune,” “Fraudulent Counsel,” “Gregory the Great,” “Homer,” “Horace,” “Peter Lombard,” “Paulus Orosius,” “Pilgrimage,” “Saladin,” and “Socrates,” The Dante Encyclopedia, Richard Lansing, ed. New York: Garland, 2000.
- Review article: Aldo Vallone, Storia della letteratura meridionale (Napoli: CUEN, 1996) Lectura Dantis 20-21 (1997): 109-112.
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