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• PhD, Italian Language and Literature, Indiana University
• M.A., Italian Language and Literature, Indiana University
• B.A., History and Italian, University of Minnesota
• Exchange Student, Universit脿 degli Studi di Bologna, Bologna, Italy 

• Dante 
• medieval and Renaissance Italian literature
• Medieval Studies
• Italian history and politics
• the history of Italians in Texas

• Chairman, Department of Modern Languages (2024-present)
• Director of Italian (2016-present)
• Faculty Senator (2021-present)
• Associate Professor of Italian (2020-present)
• Assistant Professor of Italian (2016-2020)

• MIT 1301: First-Year Italian I 
• MIT 1302: First-Year Italian II 
• MIT 2311: Second-Year Italian I 
• MIT 2312: Second-Year Italian II 
• MIT 3311: Italian Literary Tradition I 
• MIT 3322: Italian Literary Tradition II 
• MIT 3343: Italian Literary Tradition III 
• MIT 3323: Advanced Communication in Italian 
• MIT 4311: The Italian City: Naples 
• MIT 4311: The Italian City: Rome 
• MIT 4311: The Italian City: Florence 
• MIT 4311: The Italian City: Bologna 
• MIT 3350: Introduction to Italian Cinema 
• MIT 5301: Italian for Reading Knowledge I (Foundations) 
• MIT 5302: Italian for Reading Knowledge II (Classics) 
• MIT 4V51: (Italian) Lives of Saints 
• MIT 4V51: La vita e le opere di Niccol貌 Machiavelli 
• MIT 4V51: L鈥橧talia e la Chiesa nell鈥檈t脿 moderna 
• MIT 4V51: Santi e peccatori nell鈥檃giografia medievale italiana 
• MIT 4V51: La storia della filosofia italiana: il dibattito epistolare tra Gentile e Croce 
• MIT 4V51: La vita nuova di Dante e l'amore cortese
• ENG 1301: Literary Tradition II: Dante, Milton, Lyric 

Books

• European-Language Accounts of the Republic of Texas (1836-1845) (in-progress, Texas Tech University Press)
• Dante and the Politics of Literary Script: the 芦De vulgari eloquentia禄 and the Fortunes of Medieval Italian Lyric (in-progress, University of Toronto Press)

Refereed Journals and Edited Book Chapters

• 鈥淪urprising Encounters: Manzoni鈥檚 Dantean rhetorical palimpsest (PS VII-VIII and XXXIII-XXXIV)鈥�, in Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Italian Studies, vol. 4, Dec. 2021, pp. 139-169.
• 鈥淛acopo Corbinelli鈥檚 De vulgari eloquentia (1577) and the Retorica di Ser Brunetto Latini in volgar fiorentino (1546),鈥� in Studi in onore di H. Wayne Storey, edited by Beatrice Arduini, Isabella Magni, and Jelena Tudorovic, Brill, 2021, pp. 304-317.
• 鈥淕illes M茅nage, Dante, and the Invention of Italian Medieval Literature鈥�, Cahiers de Recherches M茅di茅vales et Humanistes (鈥楯ournal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies鈥�), pp. 205-222. edited by Yann Dahhaoui and Barbara Wahlen.
• 鈥淯t exinde potionare possimus dolcissimum ydromellum鈥� (Dve I I 1): 鈥楧ante satiro鈥� and the De vulgari eloquentia, in 芦Dante Satiro禄, Lexington Press, edited by F. Alfie and N. Applauso, 2020, pp. 93-116.
• 鈥淎nnibale Ranuzzi, Il Texas, della sua condizione presente e del suo avvenire politico e commerciale (1842)鈥�, Catholic Southwest: a Journal of History and Culture, vol. 30, 2019, pp. 33-45.
• 鈥淏occaccio e il Dve fra il codice Toledano e il codice Chigiano鈥�, in Boccaccio 1313-2013, edited by F. Ciabattoni and K. Olson, Ravenna: Longo (October 2015).
• 鈥溾�楶adre鈥� e 鈥楧onna del cielo鈥�: Petrarca in Guittone della 鈥楪iuntina di rime antiche鈥欌��, Medioevo letterario d鈥橧talia 9 (2012 [2013]), pp. 89-103.
• 鈥淒ante, Guittone, Guinizzelli, and the Politics of Literary Debate鈥�, Textual Cultures 7.2 (2012 [2013]), pp. 43-72.

Scholarly Reviews

• 鈥淒uecento and Trecento I (Dante)鈥�, The Year鈥檚 Work in Modern Language Studies (83), Brill, pp. 1-32, April 12, 2023. 
• 鈥淒uecento and Trecento I (Dante)鈥�, The Year鈥檚 Work in Modern Language Studies (82), Brill, pp. 135-163, April 20, 2022. 
• 鈥淒uecento and Trecento I (Dante)鈥�, The Year鈥檚 Work in Modern Language Studies (81), Brill, pp. 351-377, 2021. 
• 鈥淒uecento and Trecento I (Dante)鈥�, The Year鈥檚 Work in Modern Language Studies (80), Brill, pp. 484-503, June 17, 2020.  
• 鈥淒uecento and Trecento I (Dante)鈥�, The Year鈥檚 Work in Modern Language Studies (79), Brill, pp. 352-368, June 2019. 
• 鈥淒uecento and Trecento I (Dante)鈥�, The Year鈥檚 Work in Modern Language Studies (78), Brill, pp. 249-257, 2018. 
• 鈥淒uecento and Trecento I (Dante)鈥�, The Year鈥檚 Work in Modern Language Studies (77), Brill, pp. 161-168, 2017.
• 鈥淩eview of La biblioteca di Pietro Crinito: Manoscritti e libri a stampa della raccolta libraria di un umanista fiorentino. Series: Textes et 脡tudes du Moyen 脗ge (Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal: Porto, 2013)鈥�, The Medieval Review (April 2014).

Other Published Materials

• 鈥淒ante and the Journey to God鈥�, Studies in Catholic Faith and Culture, 吃瓜网, 2019, pp. 43-52.
• 鈥淲rong-Answer Feedback for Online Student Activities Manual鈥�, in Caleidoscopio, D. Bartalesi-Graf and C. Ryan, Pearson (2014).
• 鈥淭est Bank鈥�, in Caleidoscopio, D. Bartalesi-Graf and C. Ryan, Pearson (2014). 

Individual

• 2024 Haggar Fellow. Presented annually to one junior faculty member at the University of Dallas (2024)
• Haggar Scholar Award Winner for AAIS 2022 Conference in Bologna, Italy (2022)
• Haggar Scholar Award Winner for book project 鈥淒ante and the Politics of Script鈥� (2018)
• Andrea McRobbie Fellowship, Medieval Studies, Indiana University (2011)
• Lander MacClintock Award for Outstanding Academic Work in Italian, Indiana University (2010)
• Most Outstanding Associate Instructor of Italian, Indiana University (2008)
• Nominated for Dissertation Completion Fellowship, FRIT, Indiana University (2008-2010)

Italian Program

• Endowed Scholarship in Italian, 鈥淓nrica Ponti Zocchi and Aldo Ponti Scholarship."
• Italian Club of Dallas Scholarship of $1,000 to 吃瓜网 students of Italian (2018-present).
• Italian Departmental Scholarship Program for incoming students ($1,000-$5,000, 4-year renewable).
• Lamberti鈥檚 Ristorante & Wine Bar (Irving, TX) to sponsor NOTAI Lecture Series.
• Financial backing from 吃瓜网 Alumni Relations, Associazione Siciliani Texas and the Confederazione Siciliani Nord America for the February 2018 event Dallas in Prizzi.
• QEP Award, Tiramisu for Two, November 9, 2017.
• QEP Award for Luca Vullo: "The natural vocabulary of all peoples...", January 23, 2017.

 

 

• 鈥淒ante and the Church,鈥� 2025 Boethius Center Symposium, 鈥淢edieval Religious Imagination: Unity in Diversity,鈥� Ave Maria University. Invited participant. March 14-15, 2025. (upcoming)
• 鈥淎ristocracy, Democracy, and the Church in Lampedusa鈥檚 The Leopard鈥� (upcoming; October-November 2024). Invited Seminars for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
• 鈥溾�楺ual 猫 colui ch鈥檃docchia e s鈥檃rgomenta / di vedere eclissar lo sole un poco鈥� (Par. 25.118-119): The Eclipse and the Sun in Dante鈥檚 Commedia.鈥� Invited Presentation for 鈥淥ut of the Darkness and Into the Light: On-Campus Eclipse Experience,鈥� 吃瓜网, April 8, 2024.
• 鈥淛ustice, Mercy, Conversion: Alessandro Manzoni鈥檚 Promessi sposi (鈥楾he Betrothed鈥�)鈥� (November-December 2023). Invited Seminars for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
• 鈥淰irgil,鈥� 鈥淒ante, Virgilio, and [Giovanni del] Virgilio,鈥� 吃瓜网 Classics Club, October 14, 2023. Invited panelist.
• 鈥淚taly鈥檚 Literary Unification,鈥� Texas Woman鈥檚 University, October 1, 2023. Invited talk.
• 鈥淚talian Lyric from its Origins to Petrarca鈥�, for 鈥淕reat Works of the Renaissance and Baroque,鈥� 吃瓜网, September 11, 2023. Invited lecture.
• 鈥淚taly and Texas, Italian Texans: An (Almost) 500-Year-Old Story?鈥�, March 24, 2023. Invited Presentation for the DFW Italians' Gala Dinner.
• 鈥�(I)talia o Talia?: The Italian Program and Second-Year II,鈥� Department of Modern Languages, 吃瓜网, February 17, 2023.
• 鈥淭he New Italian Right? Reflections on the Revolution in Italy鈥�, Young Conservatives of Texas, 吃瓜网, October 19, 2022. Invited speaker.
• 鈥溾�業mproper and 鈥楶roper鈥� Poetics in Dante鈥�, Catholic Imagination Conference, October 1, 2022. Invited panelist.
• 鈥淪inners and Saints in Dante鈥檚 Comedy," (July-August 2022). Invited Seminars for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
• 鈥溾�業mproper鈥� Poetics and the Silence of Hell,鈥� American Association of Italian Studies Conference, Bologna, Italy, May 29, 2022.
• 鈥淩eading Dante鈥檚 Paradiso,鈥� invited discussant, special panel, 100 Days of Dante, April 28, 2022. Invited panelist.
• 鈥淢anuscripts, Poetic Debates: Twitter and the Medieval Italian Sonnet,鈥� Modern Languages Symposium 鈥淓l/Il Sone(t)to,鈥� April 26, 2022.
• 鈥溾�橲矛 che dal dir il fatto non sia diverso鈥� (Inf. 32.10): Metapoesis and Lexical Weight in Dante鈥檚 Commedia,鈥� University of North Georgia, April 8, 2022. Invited lecture.
• 鈥淒ante and The Quest, Episode 4.鈥� Discussion with alumni. March 31, 2022.
• 鈥淩eading Dante鈥檚 Inferno: Descent into Hell II,鈥� 100 Days of Dante, December 22, 2021. Invited panelist.
• 鈥淩eading Dante鈥檚 Inferno: Descent into Hell,鈥� 100 Days of Dante, December 2, 2021. Invited panelist.
• 鈥淭eaching Dante: 100 Days of Dante,鈥� Roundtable, SMU Bridwell Library Dante Festival and Conference, September 2, 2021. Invited discussant.
• 鈥�Homo biologicus Isn鈥檛 Enough,鈥� SMU Bridwell Library Dante Festival and Conference, September 2, 2021.
• 鈥�100 Days of Dante at 700,鈥� 吃瓜网 EnCore Lecture Series to alumni and community. An invited EnCore Lecture Series presentation and live Q-and-A sponsored by the University of Dallas Office of Alumni Relations. August 10, 2021.
• 鈥淪urprising encounters: Dante and Promessi sposi.鈥� Presented at the American Association of Italian Studies Conference, May 28-June 6, 2021.
• 鈥淧arallels and Pandemics: Manzoni鈥檚 Promessi sposi.鈥� Presented at 鈥淐risis and Consolation: Liberal Education in the Time of COVID-19,鈥滳onference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, April 12-18, 2021.
• Dante, the Church, and Italy鈥檚 Literary Unification,鈥� St. Anthony Academy鈥檚 Little Lay Oratory, January 15, 2021. Invited speaker.
• 鈥淒ante and the Journey to God,鈥� 吃瓜网 EnCore Lecture Series to alumni and community. An invited EnCore Lecture Series presentation and live Q-and-A sponsored by the 吃瓜网 Office of Alumni Relations. August 11, 2020.
• 鈥淕iovanni Boccaccio鈥檚 Decameron,鈥� March 30, 2020., Center for Medieval Studies, 鈥淒ecameron Tales of the Coronavirus鈥�, University of Minnesota. A video-lesson and introduction on Boccaccio鈥檚 Decameron for a project of the University of Minnesota Center for Medieval Studies. 
• 鈥淭he Art of Teaching鈥�, 吃瓜网 Department of Art 鈥淚ntersections鈥� Lecture Series, November 20, 2019. Invited lecture.
• 鈥淭he Republic of Texas and the Risorgimento: the Case of Annibale Ranuzzi.鈥� Presented at the Italian American Studies Association Conference, Houston, TX, October 31, 2019.
• 鈥淒ante, the Commedia, and Sacred Space,鈥� University of North Texas, Department of Art, October 30, 2019. Invited lecture.
• 鈥淢odern Italy鈥檚 Literary Unification鈥�, in 鈥淭he Modern World鈥� (graduate course), Braniff Graduate School, 吃瓜网 (November 14, 2018). Invited lecture in Braniff graduate course.
• 鈥淚ntegrating Dante across the Curriculum at a Mission-Oriented University.鈥� Presented at the Third Biennial Teaching the Christian Intellectual Tradition Conference: 鈥淭eaching Dante鈥�, Samford University, Birmingham, AL, October 25-27, 2018.
• 鈥溾�榌L]ectos iuvenes, fortissima corda, / defer in Italian鈥�: Italian and the trivium in the Twenty-First Century,鈥� Italian Pedagogy. Presented at South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio, TX, October 11-14, 2018.
• 鈥淩esearch in Library and Information Science: an Italian Perspective,鈥� 鈥淩esearch in Library and Information Science鈥�, Invited Presentation to Emporia State University, Kansas City, KS (Sept. 22, 2018).
• 鈥淐ontemporary Medieval Receptions of Dante鈥檚 Embryonic Theory in Purgatory 25.鈥� Presented at University Faculty for Life Conference, Irving, TX (June 8-9, 2018).
• 鈥溾�業f we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change鈥�: Italy as Nation-State鈥�, Wingren Study Center, April 6, 2018, Irving, TX. Invited lecture.
• 鈥淭he First Italian Edition of More鈥檚 Utopia (1519) and the Aldine-Giunti Rivalry.鈥� Presented at Early Modern Thomas More(s), Irving, TX (November 3-4, 2017).
• 鈥淲hat is a Citizen? Ius sanguinis and ius soli in Contemporary Italy鈥�, for 吃瓜网 symposium, 鈥淚mmigration in Europe: a Modern Languages Perspective.鈥� October 25, 2017. Organizer and convener.
• 鈥淭he Parts and the Whole of Dante鈥檚 Comedy鈥�, for 吃瓜网 Faculty Book Discussion Day, 吃瓜网 (August 16, 2017). Invited lecture.
• 鈥�Stupor mundi? Sicily, Frederick II, and Medieval Italian Poetry, in 鈥淢edieval Worlds鈥� (graduate course), Braniff Graduate School, 吃瓜网 (April 2017). Invited lecture.
• 鈥溌獹uidonem, Lapum [sic?], et unum alium, Florentinos, et Cynum 颅颅Pistoriensem禄: How Dante Became Dante in the De vulgari eloquentia.鈥� Presented at the Modern Language Association Conference 2017, Philadelphia, PA (January 7-10, 2017).
• 鈥淭he Business of the Italian Program at American Land-Grant Universities.鈥� Presented at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Pasadena, CA (November 11-13, 2016).
• 鈥淢edieval Italian Poetry and the Archaeological Paratext of the 1527 Giuntina.鈥� Presented at the Inventing Medieval Literature (16th-17th centuries) Conference, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (October 5-6, 2016).
• 鈥淒ante and the Foundations of Italian Literature: the Vita nova and the De vulgari eloquentia, in 鈥淒ante and Milton: the Christian Epic鈥�, Braniff Graduate School, University of Dallas, Irving, TX (August 30, 2016). Invited lecture.
• 鈥淧olitics and Satire in Dante鈥檚 De vulgari eloquentia,鈥� 吃瓜网, Irving, TX (April 18, 2016). Invited lecture.
• 鈥溾�榃ho is Dante? What is the Comedy?鈥� Infernal Auschwitz, Primo Levi, and Dante,鈥� 鈥淗onors English II: Holocaust Literature,鈥� Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (February 5, 2016). Invited lecture.
• 鈥淭he History of the Italian Language,鈥� in 鈥淚talian for Travelers鈥�, Invited lecture at Washburn University, Topeka, KS (February 4, 2016). Invited lecture.
• 鈥淚diosyncratic Italy and the Proverbial Paese,鈥� 鈥淎rchitecture, Planning, and Design 701鈥�, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (October 20, 2015). Invited lecture.
• 鈥�Forma tractatus and forma tractandi in Dante鈥檚 De vulgari eloquentia.鈥� Presented at the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 8-11, 2014).
• 鈥淪otto il segno di Dante: la politica della lingua e la nascita della cultura letteraria,鈥� Invited lecture at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (January 28, 2014).
• 鈥淏occaccio e il De vulgari eloquentia.鈥� Presented at the Second Triennial International Boccaccio Conference, ABA, 鈥淏occaccio in Washington, DC鈥�, Washington, DC (Oct. 4-6 2013)
• 鈥溾�楲鈥檃rte del dire in rima鈥�: Boccaccio and the questione della lingua.鈥� Presented at the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio (October 2012).
• 鈥溾�楢ccipiendo vel compilando ab aliis鈥�: the Anthological De vulgari eloquentia.鈥� Presented at the Student-Faculty Forum, Dept. of French and Italian, Indiana University (March 2011).
• 鈥淪oft Censorship: The Politics of Exclusion and Medieval Italian Literature.鈥� Presented at the UCLA conference Forbidden Ideas: Controversial Modes of Engagement in the Italian Intellectual Tradition, Los Angeles, California (October 2010).
• 鈥淗ierarchies and the Vanishing Point in Medieval Literary Culture.鈥� Presented at the Student-Faculty Forum, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University (April 2010).
• 鈥淒ante and Guittone: Hierarchies and the Vanishing Point in Medieval Literary Politics.鈥� Presented at Chiasmi, Brown-Harvard Conference, Providence, RI (March 2010).

• Seminar Leader for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Office of Pastoral Ministry (Dante, Alessandro Manzoni, Giuseppe Lampedusa, 2022-2024)

• • Aristocracy, Democracy, and the Church in Lampedusa鈥檚 The Leopard鈥� (Oct.-Nov. 2024)

  • 鈥淛ustice, Mercy, Conversion: Alessandro Manzoni鈥檚 The Betrothed鈥� (Nov.-Dec. 2023)

  • 鈥淪inners and Saints in Dante鈥檚 Comedy鈥� (July-August 2022)

• Member, National Screening Committee for Fulbright U.S. Student English Language Teaching Assistantships in Italy (three-year term, 2023-2025)

• Co-Editor and Book-Review Editor (Medieval, English-Language), Annali d'Italianistica, 2019-present

• Contributing Editor (Dante Studies), The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 2016-present

• Advisory Board Member, 100 Days of Dante, 2021-present

• Co-Founder, Co-Organizer, Director of Italian Heritage, Dallas-Fort Worth Italian Festival, 2022-present.

• Assistant to the Editor, Textual Cultures, 2010-2011

• Italian Interpreter, Masterword Services (medical, educational), 

• Italian Interpreter, Translator and Interpreter Network [TIN], Catholic Charities

• Italian-Language Ad-Content Reviewer, Zerochaos/Google