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Italian Literature

• Theology and Philosophy in Medieval Italian Literature
• Il dolce stil novo
• Dante Studies
• Classical Influences in Italian Humanism and Renaissance
• Petrarca Studies
• Italian Epic Poetry
• Neoclassicism 鈥� Foscolo
• Leopardi鈥檚 Poetry and Philosophy
• Decadentism

Languages

• Italian
• Latin
• Ancient Greek
• Spanish
• Hebrew

Archaeology

• Classical
• Biblical
• Meso-American
• Megalithic

Jewish Studies

• Jewish Literature and Philosophy in Medieval Italy and Spain

• PhD, Humanities, Italian Literature, University of Texas at Dallas
• M.A., Jewish Studies, Biblical and Medieval, Hebrew College, Boston
• M.A., Anthropology, Etruscan Archaeology, University of Texas at Arlington
• M.A., Spanish, Medieval Literature, University of Texas at Arlington
• B.A., Spanish and Classics, University of Texas at Arlington
• Maturit脿 Classica, Italy

• Affiliate Assistant Professor of Italian

Italian Program

• Dante (MIT 4346)
• Italian Poetry and Philosophy (MIT 4321)
• Italian Language and Culture (MIT 4V50)
• Italian Epic Poetry (MIT 3V50)
• La Poesia Stilnovistica (MIT 3V50)
• Independent Research (MIT 4V51)
• Advanced Communication in Italian (MIT 3323)
• Italian Literary Tradition II (MIT 3322)
• Italian Literary Tradition I (MIT 3321)
• Second Year Italian II (MIT 2312)
• Second Year Italian I (MIT 2311)
• First Year Italian II (MIT 1302)
• First Year Italian I (MIT 1301)

Classics Program

• Mediterranean Archaeology (CLC 4350, CLC 5301)

• "Intellectual Trajectory in Medieval Italian Literature: Maimonides, Dante, Immanuel ben Solomon鈥� (2020)
• "Etruscan Origins and Italian Nationalism." Studia Europaea, vol. 1 (2011)
• "Martin Buber's Response to the Historical and Cultural Context of the First World War." Studia Europaea vol. 4 (2009).

 

• 鈥淧rophetic Technology in Maimonides and Dante.鈥� Medieval Association of the Pacific Annual Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, April 2023.
• 鈥淐ritical analysis of Dante鈥檚 sonnet Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare鈥� Multilingual Poetry Night, 吃瓜网, October 2023.
•  鈥淐aravaggio, Master of Light鈥� 吃瓜网, September 2023.
• "Maimonidean Echoes in the Commedia", 吃瓜网, December 2022.
• 鈥淐ritical analysis of Ugo Foscolo鈥檚 sonnet A Zacinto鈥�, Multilingual Poetry Night, 吃瓜网, October 2022.
• 鈥淎 Review of Papal Tributes to Dante鈥檚 Poetic Expression of Catholic Values鈥�, Future of Catholic Literary Imagination, 吃瓜网, October 2022.
• 鈥淐ritical analysis of Guido Cavalcanti鈥檚 sonnet Avete 鈥檔 vo鈥� li fior e la verdure鈥�, Multi-Lingual Poetry Night, 吃瓜网, October 2021.
• 鈥淭he Path to Spiritual Enlightenment: Jewish Mysticism in the Divine Comedy鈥�, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Sept. 2021.
• 鈥淐ritical analysis of Dante鈥檚 Inferno Canto XVII鈥� 100 Days of Dante video series, June 2021.
• 鈥淐ritical analysis of Giacomo Leopardi鈥檚 sonnet: L'infinito鈥� Multi-Lingual Poetry Night, 吃瓜网, October 2020

• "Intellectual Trajectory in Medieval Italian Literature: Maimonides, Dante, Immanuel Ben Solomon." Hebrew College, Boston, MA, Dec. 2019.鈥� "Consideration on the Question of Prophecy in Maimonides and Spinoza." Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Dec. 2019.
• "God's Nature as Revealed in the Book of Exodus." Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel, May 2019.
• "Divine Comedy, Paradiso Canto I and XXXIII." Reading Dante's Divine Comedy, University of Dallas, Feb. 2019.
• "The Use of Memory for the Poetic Creation of a 'Locus Amoenus' in Petrarch's Chiare, fresche et dolci acque." Medieval Association of the Pacific Annual Conference, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, April 2018.
• "On the Process of Knowledge Acquisition: The Role of Pure Intuition in the Guide of the Perplexed." Hebrew College, Boston MA, December 2017.
• "The Influence of Hekhalot Literature and Merkabah Tradition on the Divine Comedy." Medieval Association of the Pacific Annual Conference, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, March 2017.
• "吃瓜网 Faculty Symposium on the Divine Comedy" 吃瓜网, Spring 2016.
• "Classical Literary Sources and Material Evidence in the Ancient Mediterranean World" 吃瓜网, Spring 2015.
• "The Italic Temples of Schiavi di Abruzzo: Samnite Archaeology" 吃瓜网 Rome Walking Tours Lecture Series, Fall 2013.
• "The Chariot of Ezekiel in the Divine Comedy" 吃瓜网 Rome Walking Tours Lecture Series, Fall 2012.
• "The Mysticism of Saint Francis of Assisi: Laudes Creaturarum" 吃瓜网, Fall 2012.
• "Italian Dolce Stil Novo: Guido Guinizzelli and Guido Cavalcanti" UT Dallas, Spring 2012.
• "Gerusalemme Liberata" 吃瓜网, Fall 2011.
• "The Eternity of Leopardi's Poetry" 吃瓜网 Rome Walking Tours Lecture Series, Fall 2011.
• "A Night of Italian Poetry from Cielo d'Alcamo to Gabriele D'Annunzio" University of Dallas, Rome Walking Tours Lecture Series, Fall 2010.
• "The Trojan Legend in Etruria" 吃瓜网, Spring 2010.
• "Classical Roots of the Divine Comedy: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura" UT Dallas, Fall 2009.
• Dante Symposium with Dr. Robert Hollander 吃瓜网, Spring 2006, 2008 & 2009.
• "Italian Neo-Classicism: Ugo Foscolo's Alla Sera" 吃瓜网, Spring 2007.
• "The Homeric Odysseus in the Divine Comedy" panel discussion with Dr. Karl Maurer. 吃瓜网, Spring 2007.
• "Don Quijote's Rhetorical Discourse: Sign of Madness or Wisdom?" UT Arlington, Spring 1998.