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Italian Studies, Deparment of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

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Michael Papio

Associate Professor of Italian

Contact Information

Location: Herter Hall 312
Phone: (413) 545-2314
Email: papio AT hfa.umass.edu

Education

BA, Italian and Spanish, Florida State University
MA, Italian Studies, University of Virginia
PhD, Italian Studies, Brown University

Program Responsibilities

  • Director of Italian Program
  • Italian Scheduling Officer
  • Commonwealth College Liaison
  • Director of UMass Chapter of Gamma Kappa Alpha
  • Participant in UMass' Medieval Studies Certificate Program

Selected Publications

  • Editor-in-Chief of Heliotropia, a forum for Boccaccio Research and Interpretation

Books

  • Boccaccio's Expositions on Dante's Comedy. Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 2009.
  • 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

  • "¿Cuál será el futuro de la publicación de revistas electrónicas en las humanidades?" La corónica 37.1 (2008): 365-86.
  • "Reflections on Heliotropia and the Future of E-journal Publishing in the Humanities." Storicamente 4 (2008) [link]
  • "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.

Research interests

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.