Fields
Medieval and early modern Italian literature
Early modern reception of the classics
Intersections of literature, philosophy, and politics
Orphic literature
Italian Humanism and Islam
Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and their reception
Education & Training
- PhD, Italian Literature, Yale University
Representative Publications
Luigi Pulci in Renaissance Florence and Beyond: New Perspectives on his Poetry and Influence, co-ed. and introd. with Andrea Moudarres (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018)
"Translating Impiety: Girolamo Frachetta and the First Vernacular Commentary on Lucretius." Quaderni d'Italianistica 35.1 (2014): 55-72.
"Boccaccio's Humanistic Ethnography (De Canaria)." Boccaccio: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works. Ed. V. Kirkham, M. Sherberg, and J. Smarr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
“Furor and Philology in the Poetics of Angelo Poliziano.” New Worlds and the Italian Renaissance. Leiden: Brill, 2012: 251-289.
“Observations on Vico as Reader of Lucretius.” New Vico Studies 25 (2007): 35-51.
“Mitomania e metamorfosi di Olimpia." Paragone Letteratura 48, 49, 50 (August - December 2003): 114-125.