D E N N I S O S C A R L O O N E Y (updated June 2018)

WORK

Modern Language Association

Director of Programs and ADFL

85 Broad Street, Suite 500

New York, NY 10004

646 576-5140; 412 715-6072 (cell)

dlooney@mla.org / www.mla.org / www.adfl.org

EDUCATION Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1980-87

University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 1984-85

M.A., Sacred Poetics, Boston University, 1978-80

B.A. magna cum laude, Classical Greek, Boston University, 1973-78

University of Florence, Italy, with Middlebury College, 1975-76

AWARDS AND GRANTS Ronco Scholarship, Gladstone’s Library, St. Deiniol’s, Wales, 2012 ($1000)

American Association of Italian Studies, First Prize, Book Award General Category, 2011,

for Freedom Readers ($500)

ESC/UCIS, Faculty European Grant Competition, U Pittsburgh, 2011 ($1500)

Vatican Film Library Mellon Fellowship, St. Louis University, 2011 ($1880)

Research Abroad Program Grant, U Pittsburgh, 2002 ($15024); 2009 ($16000)

Hewlitt Grant, U Pittsburgh, 2007 ($1470); 2008 ($1200); 2010 ($1500); 2011 ($1500); 2012 ($1500)

CWES/EUC Small Grant Award, U Pittsburgh, 2005 ($500); 2009 ($500); 2010 ($1000)

FAS/A&S Type II Research Grant, U Pittsburgh, 2004 ($2600); 2011 ($2060)

Bowman International Grant, U Pittsburgh, 2002 ($1500); 2010 ($2000)

Compromising the Classics, honorable mention, MLA Marraro-Scaglione Italian Prize, 1996-97

U Pittsburgh’s nominee for Carnegie Foundation’s Professor of the Year, 1994; 1995

President's Distinguished Teaching Award, U Pittsburgh, 1992 ($5000)

Small Grants Program, CRDF, U Pittsburgh 1991 ($3399); 1994 ($8950); 2000 ($7600)

Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome, 1990-91 (first alternate)

NEH Summer Institute on Ariosto and Tasso, Northwestern University, 1990 ($3000)

NEH Summer Institute on Petrarch and Petrarchism, Yale University, 1989 ($3000)

NEH Summer Seminar on Italian Archival Sciences, Newberry Library, 1988 ($3000)

Research Grant, Faculty of Arts + Sciences, U Pittsburgh, 1987 ($2500); 1988 ($2500)

Werner P. Friederich Fellowship in the Humanities, UNC-CH, 1984-85 ($8000)

EXPERIENCE Modern Language Association,

Director of Programs / Director of Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 2014-

Professor of French and Italian, University of Pittsburgh, 2010-2015; adjunct status, 2015-

www.frenchanditalian.pitt.edu/people/faculty/looney/index.php

Secondary Appointment in Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 2010-2015

Chair, Department of French and Italian, University of Pittsburgh, 1996-2003; 2006-2010

Advisory Board, Mediterranean Center for Arts and Sciences, Siracusa, Sicily, 2007

Assistant Dean, Humanities, University of Pittsburgh, 2004-2006

Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, Executive Committee, 2002-2004, President, 2004

Associate Professor of Italian, University of Pittsburgh, 1993-2010

Acting Director, Center for West European Studies / European Union Center, 2003

Academic Dean, Semester at Sea, University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2000

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Director, Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1994-1996

Founding Director of Pitt-in-Italy, summer program in Italy; on site in 1991-94; 1996-99; 2002; 2006

Initial Resident Director, Pitt-in-Florence, semester program in Italy, spring 2013

Secondary Appointment in Classics, University of Pittsburgh, 1994-2015

Assistant Professor of Italian, University of Pittsburgh, 1986-1992

Instructor, Latin/Greek Institute, City University of New York, summer 1984, 1985, 1987

Assistant, NEH Summer Seminar on Renaissance Humanism, UNC-CH, 1981

Research Assistant in Greek Lexicography, Boston University, 1978-80

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS Ariosto, Ludovico. Carmina: Ariosto’s Lyric Poems. Ed., intro., and trans. Dennis Looney and

Mark Possanza. I Tatti Renaissance Library, vol. 84 Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.

Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy.

The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies. Notre Dame, Indiana:

U of Notre Dame P, 2011.

Ariosto, Ludovico. ‘My Muse will have a story to paint’: Selected Prose of Ludovico Ariosto. Trans.

and intro. Dennis Looney. Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library Series. Toronto: U Toronto P, 2010.

Zatti, Sergio. The Quest for Epic: From Ariosto to Tasso. Ed. Dennis Looney.

Trans. Sally Hill with D. Looney. Intro. Albert Russell Ascoli. Toronto: U Toronto P, 2006.

Phaethon’s Children: The Este Court and Its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara. Co-edited with

Deanna Shemek. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. Arizona State University Press.

Tempe, Arizona: MRTS, 2005.

Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance.

Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996.

“Tasso’s Allegory of the Source in Gerusalemme Liberata.” Cap. 5 of Compromising

the Classics, rpt. in Literature Criticism, ed. T. Schoenberg, vol. 94 (Gale, 2004). 254-72.

“Radical Neoclassicism in Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato.” Cap. 2 of Compromising

the Classics, rpt. in Literature Criticism, ed. T. Schoenberg, vol. 168 (Gale, 2009). 48-64.

ARTICLES at MLA

“Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, 2016,

Preliminary Report.” Dennis Looney and Natalia Lusin. (2018): 1-19.

“From the Editor.” Introductions to ADFL Bulletin 43.2 (2015): 4-8; 44.1 (2016): 1-4; 44.2 (2018): 1-4.

“Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, 2013.”

David Goldberg, Dennis Looney, and Natalia Lusin. (2015): 1-81.

“Foreign Language Educators in K-12 and Postsecondary Institutions: Needs, Shortages, and New

Directions.” Martha Abbott, Rosemary G. Feal, and Dennis Looney. 2014.

http://www.wm.edu/offices/revescenter/internationalization/papers%20and%20presentations/fealabbottfull.pdf

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ARTICLES (in Peer Reviewed Journals)

“Dante Politico: An Introduction.” Mediaevalia 38, Special Issue on “Dante Politico: Ideological

Reception across Boundaries.” Eds. Dennis Looney and Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio. (2018): 1-12.

“Ariosto’s Dialogue with Authority in the Erbolato.” MLN 128.1 (January 2013): 20-39.

DOI: 10.1353/mln.2013.0002

“The Reception of Herodotus in the Ferrarese Quattrocento.” Annali Online Lettere VII/1 (2012):

167-83. http://annali.unife.it/lettere

“Leopardi’s Il Copernico and Paradigm Shifts in Art.” Annali d’italianistica 23 (2005): 133-46.

“A Reading of Boiardo’s Herodotus in the Late Quattrocento: Annotations to Modena MS

alpha.H.3.22.” Manuscripta 41/2 (1997): 127-32.

“Petrarch and Ovid in the Ferrarese Quattrocento: Notes on a Manuscript of Petrarch's Trionfi

at Pennsylvania State University.” Romance Philology 48/1 (1994): 22-29.

“Canto XVII.” Dante's Divine Comedy: Introductory Readings. Vol. II: Purgatorio.

Ed. Tibor Wlassics. Supplement to Lectura Dantis 12 (1993): 248-58.

“Believing in the Poet: Inferno XIII.” Allegorica 13 (1992): 39-52.

“Ariosto's Ferrara: A National Identity between Fact and Fiction.” Yearbook of Comparative

and General Literature 39 (1990-91): 25-34.

“Recent Trends in Ariosto Criticism: Intricati rami e aer fosco.” Modern Philology 88:2

(1990): 153-65. Rpt. in Literature Criticism, ed. T. Schoenberg, vol. 87 (Gale, 2003).

“Canto VII.” Dante's Divine Comedy: Introductory Readings. Vol I: Inferno. Ed. Tibor

Wlassics. Supplement to Lectura Dantis 6 (1990): 82-92.

“Purgatorio VI-VII: The Purgation and Emendation of a Simile.” Lectura Dantis 7 (1990): 133-42.

ESSAYS IN BOOKS (Peer Reviewed)

“Tommaso Porcacchi: Reading Ariosto through the Ancients.” In The Orlando Furioso from Print to

Digital: Five Centuries of Reading Ariosto. Ed. Antonio Ricci. U Toronto P, forthcoming.

“Zoanne Pencaro, an Early Modern Italian Reader of the Ancient Near East in Herodotus.” In Reading

the Ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe. Ed. Jane Grogan. Oxford: Oxford UP, forthcoming.

“Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy in Nineteenth-Century America.”

In Routledge History of the Italian Americans. Eds. William J. Connell and Stanislao Pugliese.

New York: Routledge, 2017. 91-104.

“Corte.” In Lessico critic dell’Orlando Furioso.” Ed. Annalisa Izzo. Rome: Carocci, 2016. 41-60.

“L’esilio di Dante nella cultura afroamericana.” In Letture Classensi 45. L’esilio di Dante nelle

letterature moderne. Ed. Johannes Bartuschat. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2016. 105-34.

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“Herodotus and Narrative Art in Renaissance Ferrara: The Translation of Matteo Maria Boiardo.”

In Brill’s Companion to Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond. Eds. Jessica Priestly and Vassiliki Zali.

Leiden: Brill, 2016. 232-53.

“Le postille al codice del volgarizzamento di Erodoto di Matteo Maria Boiardo, Biblioteca Estense,

Modena, α.H.3.22.” In Hérodote à la Renaissance. Ed. Susanna Gambino Longo. Turnhout,

Belgium: Brepols, 2012. 67-85.

“Dante Abolitionist and Nationalist in the 19th Century: The Case of Cordelia Ray.” In Dante in the

Long Nineteenth Century: Nationality, Identity and Appropriation. Eds. Nick Havely and Aida

Audah. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012. 405-31.

“Literary Heresy: The Dantesque Metamorphosis of LeRoi Jones into Amiri Baraka.” In

Metamorphosing Dante: Appropriations, Manipulations and Rewritings in the Twentieth and Twenty-

first Centuries. Eds. Manuele Gragnolati, Fabio Camilletti, and Fabian Lampart. Berlin-Vienna: Turia

und Kant, 2011. 305-22.

“Marvelous Vergil in the Ferrarese Renaissance.” In A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and Its Tradition.

Eds. Joseph Farrell and Michael C. J. Putnam. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 158-72.

“The Beginnings of Humanistic Oratory: Petrarch’s Coronation Oration.” In Petrarch:

A Critical Guide to the Complete Works. Eds. Victoria Kirkham and Armando Maggi.

Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009. 131-40.

“Epoch-making Letters: Hiram Powers in the Gabinetto Vieusseux.” In Writing Relations:

American Scholars in Italian Archives. Eds. Deanna Shemek and Michael Wyatt.

Florence: Olschki, 2008. 139-63.

“‘Flame-coloured Letters and Bugaboo Phraseology’: Hiram Powers, Frances Trollope and

Dante in Frontier Cincinnati.” In Hiram Powers a Firenze: Atti del Convegno di studi nel

Bicentario della nascita (1805-2005). Ed. Caterina Del Vivo. Florence: Olschki, 2007. 135-52.

“Il mito di Fetonte nella letteratura ferrarese.” In Lucrezia Borgia. Storia e mito.

Eds. Michele Bordin and Paolo Trovato. Florence: Olschki, 2006. 151-61.

“Collodi and Ariosto: Episodic Misadventures in Pinocchio.” In Approaches to Teaching

Collodi’s Pinocchio and Its Adaptations. Ed. M. Sherberg. New York: MLA, 2006. 34-40.

“Ferrarese Studies: Tracking the Rise and Fall of an Urban Lordship in the Renaissance.”

Introduction to Phaethon’s Children, pp. 1-23. (cited above)

“Fragil arte: tradurre e governare nei volgarizzamenti boiardeschi ad Ercole I d’Este.” In Il

Principe e la storia. Eds. S. Matarrese and C. Montagnani. Novara: Interlinea, 2005. 123-36.

“Spencer Williams: An African American Filmmaker at the Gates of Hell.” In Dante, Cinema, and

Television. Ed. Amilcare Iannucci. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. 129-44.

“Ariosto and the Classics.” In Ariosto Today: Contemporary Perspectives. Eds. D. Beecher,

M. Ciavolella, and R. Fedi. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. 18-31.

“The Poetics of Exile in LeRoi Jones’s The System of Dante’s Hell.” In Exil. Transhistorische

und transnationale Perspecktiven. Ed. H. Koopman. Paderborn: Mentis, 2001. 271-79.

“Dante in Black and White: Moments in the African-American Reception of the Divine

Comedy.” In Shades of Black and White: Conflict and Collaboration Between Two

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Communities. Selected Essays from the 30th Annual Conference of the American Italian

Historical Association. Staten Island, N.Y.: AIHA Press, 1999. 275-90.

“Tasso e la legislazione della narrativa.” In Torquato Tasso e la cultura estense. Ed. Gianni

Venturi. 3 vols. Florence: Olschki, 1999. 1: 135-44.

“Erodoto dalle Storie al romanzo.” In Il Boiardo e il mondo estense nel Quattrocento.

Ed. Giuseppe Anceschi and Tina Matarrese. 2 vols. Padua: Antenore, 1998. 1: 429-41.

“The Misshapen Beast: The Furioso's Serpentine Narrative.” In Countercurrents: The

Primacy of the Text in Literary Criticism. Ed. R. Prier. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992. 73-97.

“Ariosto the Ferrarese Rhapsode: A Compromise in the Critical Terminology for Narrative in

the mid-Cinquecento.” In Interpreting the Italian Renaissance: Literary Perspectives. Ed.

A. Toscano. Stony Brook, NY: Forum Italicum, 1991. 139-50.

ENCYCLOPEDIA, REFERENCE, & CATALOG ARTICLES

“Le lettere dell’Ariosto.” In L’Orlando Furioso. L’arte contemporanea legge l’Ariosto. Incantamenti,

passioni e follie. Ed. Sandro Parmiggiani. Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2015. 233- 39.

Reggio Emilia, Palazzo Magnani, 4 ottobre 2014 – 11 gennaio 2015.

“Ferrara.” In The Virgil Encyclopedia. Eds. Michael C. J. Putnam and Jan M. Ziolkowski.

Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. 478-9.

“Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso.” Consulting editor for entry in Literature Criticism

from 1400 to 1800. Vol. 206. Gale Cengage Press, 2012. 1-161.

“Ferrara and the Este.” “Ludovico Ariosto.” “Epic/Romance.” In Oxford Bibliographies in

Renaissance and Reformation. Ed. Margaret King. New York: Oxford UP, 2011.

“Ferrara and the Este” DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195399301-034

“Ludovico Ariosto” DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195399301-0156

“Epic/Romance” DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195399301-0155

“Ludovico Ariosto.” “Orlando Furioso.” “Satires.” “Cinque Canti.” “Comedies.”

In Encyclopedia of Italian Studies. Eds. Gaetana Marrone and Paolo Puppa.

New York: Routledge, 2006. 1: 80-95.

“Ludovico Ariosto.” Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. New York: Scribner’s, 1999. 1: 97-103.

“Ludovico Ariosto.” Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove, 1996. 2: 412.

Rpt. in Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance and Mannerist Art. Ed. J. Turner.

New York: Grove, 2000. 1: 85-86.

“Torquato Tasso.” Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove, 1996. 30: 358-59.

Rpt. in Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance and Mannerist Art. Ed. J. Turner.

New York: Grove, 2000. 2: 1843.

TRANSLATIONS Introduction to Clive James, trans. Dante’s Divine Comedy. New York: Liveright/Norton, 2013.

Galileo Galilei, “Enigma,” in Paolo Palmieri, A History of Galileo’s Inclined Plane Experiment

and its Philosophical Implications (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2011).

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“Translations from the Greek of Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494).” The Classical Outlook 88/2

(Winter 2011): 57.

Hans-Georg Gadamer, “Die religiöse Dimension in Heidegger,” in Transcendence

and the Sacred, Alan M. Olson and Leroy S. Rouner, eds. (Notre Dame, 1981). 193-207.

REVIEWS Rev. of Matteo Maria Boiardo, translation of Xenophon’s Cyropedia, ed. Valentina Gritti

(Scandiano, 2013), Renaissance Quarterly 68/3 (2015): 984-86.

Rev. of Josep Solvervicens and Antoni L. Moll, eds., La poètica renaixentista a Europa

(Barcelona, 2011), Ferrara Annali Online Lettere VII/2 (2013): 188-90. http://annali.unife.it/lettere

Rev. of Michael C. J. Putnam, trans., Jacopo Sannazaro, Latin Poetry (Harvard 2009),

The Bryn Mawr Classical Review 01.34 (2011). http://www.bmcreview.org/2011/01/20110134.html

Rev. of Brian Richardson, Manuscript Culture in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge 2009),

Renaissance Quarterly 63/4 (2010): 1269-70.

Rev. of A. Braida and L. Calè, Dante on View (Ashgate 2007), caa.reviews (Nov. 12, 2008),

DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.113.

Rev. of Marco Dorigatti, ed., Orlando Furioso secondo la princeps del 1516 (Olschki 2006),

Renaissance Quarterly 60/4 (2007): 1313-15.

Rev. of S. Gilson, Dante and Renaissance Florence (Cambridge 2005), Italica 84 (2007): 258-59.

Rev. of Lina Bolzoni, The Gallery of Memory (Toronto 2001), Emblematica 14 (2005): 27-34.

Rev. of Giannozzo Manetti, Biographical Writings (Harvard 2003), New England Classical Journal

(2004): 207-09.

Rev. of R. Lansing, ed., Dante Encyclopedia (Garland 2000), Speculum 78/3 (2003): 934-36.

Rev. of Jane E. Everson, The Italian Romance Epic in the Age of Humanism (Oxford 2001),

Modern Language Review 98.3 (2003): 733-35.

Rev. of Nick Havely, Dante's Modern Afterlife (Macmillan 1998), Speculum 76/3 (2001): 733-4.

Rev. of Michael Sherberg, Rinaldo: Character and Intertext in Ariosto and Tasso (Stanford

French and Italian Studies, 1993), Renaissance Quarterly 49/1 (1996): 133-34.

Rev. of G. Mazzotta, Worlds of Petrarch (Duke 1993), Annals of Scholarship (1996): 327-30.

Rev. of James H. McGregor, The Image of Antiquity in Boccaccio’s Filocolo, Filostrato,

and Teseida (Peter Lang 1990), Speculum 69/2 (1994): 531-33.

Rev. of Daniel Javitch, Proclaiming a Classic: The Canonization of Orlando Furioso

(Princeton 1991), Quaderni d’italianistica (1993): 164-67.

Rev. of Jon Thiem, trans. and ed., Lorenzo de' Medici, Selected Poems and Prose

(Pennsylvania State UP 1991), Rivista di Studi Italiani (1993): 254-56.

Rev. of Albert N. Mancini, I capitoli inediti di Francesco Bolognetti (Naples: Francesco e

Ardia 1989), Italica 70 (1993): 200-02.

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Rev. of Thomas R. Hart, Ariosto and Cervantes (Princeton, 1989) and Mario Santoro,

Ariosto e il Rinascimento (Liguori 1989), Italica 68/4 (1991): 498-500.

Rev. of Peter DeSa Wiggins, Figures in Ariosto's Tapestry (Johns Hopkins 1986), South Atlantic

Review 54/1 (Jan. 1989): 108-09.

INVITED LECTURES “Dante, Exile, Africans, and African Americans.” Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna, Italy. Nov 2015.

“The Poetics of Lynching / The Flight from Racism: Dante, Allen Tate, and other Freedom Readers.”

(Research in progress on Dante, American Modernism, Fugitive Poets, Agrarians, New Criticism).

University of Virginia, February 2012. Duke, April 2012. SUNY Geneseo, October 2012.

Virginia Wesleyan College, October 2012. West Virginia University, November 2012.

University of Pisa, April 2013. Addison Gayle Memorial Lecture at CUNY Baruch. May 2013.

Dante Society of America at MLA Convention. January 2014. Five Colleges, April 2017.

“Dante the Abolitionist.” University of Rochester. November 2013.

“Dante and the Journey of Faith.” Pittsburgh Encounter. Saint Paul Cathedral. September 2013.

“Dante: Exile, Migration, Segregation, Integration, Identity.” CUNY Baruch. November 2012.

“Reading Herodotus in Renaissance Ferrara.” University of Pittsburgh. February 2012.

“Radical Dante.” Bard College. October 2011.

“My Muse will have a story to paint: Ariosto’s Prose.” Brown University. February 2010.

“Dante and the Divine.” Dickinson College. Nov 2009; Oct 2010; Oct 2011; Sept 2012; Oct 2013;

Oct 2014.

“Erodoto e il lettore ideale dell’Ariosto.” Dipt. Storia Antica. Univ. Bologna. April 2009.

“Erodoto a Ferrara dal ‘400 al ‘500: Alberti, Boiardo, Ariosto.” Paris IV-Sorbonne. March 2009.

“Dante in African American Culture” (Various presentations of research on Freedom Readers).

Bowdoin College, April 2011. Loyola U Maryland, March 2011. U of Miami, Feb. 2011.

Dickinson College, Nov. 2008. U Pittsburgh (Film Studies), Nov. 2006.

Vanderbilt University, March 2005. Newberry Library, Feb. 2005. U Chicago, Feb. 2005.

U Pennsylvania, Dec. 2004. Bard College, May 2004. Univ. Pisa, March 2003.

USC/UCLA, Feb. 2003. Washington University, Nov. 2001. University of Cape Town,

South Africa, Feb. 2000. U of South Carolina, Nov. 1999. UC Santa Cruz, Oct. 1999.

U Pittsburgh, Sept. 1999. U of Notre Dame, Oct. 1998.

“Freedom Readers and Southern Questioners: Dante, Gramsci, and African American

Emancipation.” Symposium on the Gramsci Discourse. UC Santa Cruz. May 2005.

“Petrarch’s Coronation Oration.”

Symposium on Petrarch: A Life’s Work. University of Pennsylvania. April 2004.

“Fragil arte: tradurre e governare nei volgarizzamenti boiardeschi ad Ercole I d’Este.”

Centro Studi Matteo Maria Boiardo. Scandiano, Italy. September 2003.

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“Dante the Abolitionist: African American Appropriations of the Italian Poet in the 19th

Century.” The Civil War Center at Pennsylvania State University. September 2002.

“Il mito di Fetonte ed altri miti luttuosi del rinascimento ferrarese.”

Giornata di Studio su Lucrezia Borgia. Università di Ferrara. March 2002.

“Leonardo and You: What a ‘Man without Letters’ Can Teach Us about Words.”

University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg. Symposium on Leonardo da Vinci. Jan. 2002.

“Spencer Williams and Dante: African American Filmmaker at the Gates of Hell.”

Symposium on Dante and Cinema. University of Toronto. March 2001.

“Dante Antiques Roadshow: Dante’s Reception in Art and Artifacts.”

Dante Alighieri Society. Pittsburgh, PA. Fall 2000.

“Dante and Popular Culture, I+II.” Wood Street Gallery. Pittsburgh. Oct. 1998 + May 1999.

“Ariosto's Elixir of Life.”

Annual Lecture in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Purdue University, 1995.

“La legislazione della narrativa nella Liberata.”

Symposium on Tasso e la Cultura Estense. Ferrara, Italy, 1995.

“Boiardo, Erodoto, Ercole: ‘nella vostra corte adirizzo questo vecchio greco’.”

Symposium on Il Boiardo e il mondo estense nel Quattrocento. Modena/Ferrara, Italy, 1994.

“Petrarch's Epistola posteritati: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Codex.”

Symposium on Images of the Body in Italian Culture. Univ. Pennsylvania, 1993

“Ariosto the Ferrarese Rhapsode.”

Symposium on Interpreting the Italian Renaissance. SUNY Stony Brook, 1990.

“Petrarch’s Epistola posteritati.”

Department of Classics. University of Pittsburgh, 1989.

“Telling Tall Tales in Renaissance Ferrara: Boiardo's Herodotus.”

Columbia University Seminar on the Renaissance. New York, 1988.

“At School in the Quattrocento with Vittorino and Guarino.”

Dante Alighieri Society. Pittsburgh, 1988.

“Believing in the Poet: Poetry and Authority in the Divine Comedy.”

Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program. University of Pittsburgh, 1988.

“Ovid's Metamorphoses: A Classical Precedent for Ariosto's Narrative.”

French and Italian Faculty Seminar. University of Pittsburgh, 1987.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Presentations in celebration of Ariosto 2016.

At U California Berkeley, CUNY, U Toronto, British Academy, Johns Hopkins U.

“Per un lessico critico del Furioso.” Univ. Lausanne. September 2013.

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“The Carmina of Ludovico Ariosto: ‘ingeniosa sed duriuscula’.”

Latinity in the Post-Classical World. Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies and the

Pontificio Comitato di Scienze Storiche. Campo Santo Teutonico in the Vatican City. 2013.

“Cambyses, King of Persia: From Herodotus to Ariosto.”

Reading the Ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe. University College Dublin, 2012.

“Erodoto a Ferrara tra il ‘400 e il 500.”

Congresso Internazionale di Studi Umanistici. Sassoferrato, Italy, 2012.

“Tommaso Porcacchi: Reading Ariosto through Herodotus.”

Society for Renaissance Studies. Manchester, UK, 2012.

“Dante’s Faith in Politics: Fede in the Commedia.” Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, 2012.

“Ariosto’s Harpies and Myths of Stormy Politics.” RSA. Montreal, 2011.

“Ariosto prosatore.” AAIS. Pittsburgh, 2011.

“Herodotus in Ferrara between the ‘400 and ‘500: Ariosto’s Ideal Reader?” RSA. Venice, 2010.

“Stretching the Canon in African American Appropriations of Dante.”

Symposium on Metamorphosing Dante. Institute for Cultural Inquiry. Berlin, 2009.

“Arguments for + against the Marvelous in Vergilian Epic in the ’500.” RSA. Chicago, 2008.

“Dante Abolitionist and Nationalist.” Dante in the 19th Century. U of York. York, UK, 2008.

“Parva sed apta mihi: A Reconsideration of Ariosto’s Latin Poetry.” RSA. Miami, 2007.

“Collodi’s Encounter with Ariosto in the Garfagnana.” AATI. Nashville, 2006.

“Teaching the History of Science through Medieval and Early Modern Italian Literature.”

MLA. Washington, D.C., 2005.

“A Reconsideration of the Prefaces to Boiardo’s Translations for Ercole I d’Este.”

RSA. New York, 2004.

“Ariosto Minore.” AAIS. University of Ottawa, 2004.

“Ariosto’s Erotic Art: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime.”

Society for XVIth Century Studies. Pittsburgh, 2003.

“Islam in Dante and in Amiri Baraka’s System of Dante’s Hell”

Medieval/Renaissance Conference on Islam. Univ. Miami, 2003.

“Baraka’s Reading of Inferno 28.” AAIS. Georgetown University, 2003.

“Dante, Trollope, and ‘an old Negro’ on the Frontier.” Southern Comparative Literature

Association. UNC-CH,2001.

“LeRoi Jones and the Poetics of Dantesque Autobiography.”

International Medieval Conference, University of Leeds, England, 2000.

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“Dante’s Poetics of Exile and African American Culture.” Univ. of Augsburg. Germany, 1999.

“Spencer Williams: African American Filmmaker at the Gates of Hell.”

AAIS. University of Oregon, 1999.

“Political and Politicized Dante(s) in American Cultural History, 1860-1960.”

American Italian Historical Association. New York, 1998.

“The African-American Reception of the Divine Comedy.”

AAIS. Chicago, 1998. West Virginia University. Morgantown, 1998.

“Renaissance Commentary.” Respondent at the Conference: “The History and Philosophy of

Greek Medical Traditions from Hippocrates to Harvey.” Center for the Philosophy of

Science at University of Pittsburgh / University of Athens. Athens, Greece, 1998.

“Narratives of Venetian History.” Society for XVIth Century Studies. Atlanta, 1997.

“LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka and The System of Dante’s Hell.”

American Italian Historical Association. Cleveland, 1997.

“Transitions in Dante’s Commedia.” Dante Alighieri Society. Pittsburgh, 1997.

“Ariosto into Art, Revisited.” RSA. Indianapolis, 1996.

“Ariosto's Erbolato.” RSA. New York, 1995.

“The Phantom of Boiardo's Narrative.” Conference on Boiardo. Columbia U.

New York, 1994.

“Petrarch's Epistola posteritati.” RSA. Dallas, 1994.

“Tasso's Reception of Ariosto's Furioso.” AAIS. Chapel Hill, 1992.

“Ariosto's Ferrara.” ACLA. New York, 1992; Soc. for XVIth Cen. Studies. Atlanta, 1992.

“Carolingian Revenge in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.” Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, 1992.

“Boiardo's Experimentation with Classical Epic.” AATI. Nashville, 1990.

“Lectura Dantis: Inferno VII.” AAIS. Charlottesville, 1990.

“Purgatorio VI, 1-12: A Simile and its Purgation.” MLA. Washington, D.C., 1989.

“Hellenistic Romance Narratives in the Ferrarese Renaissance.” MLA. New Orleans, 1988.

“Narrative and the Critical Fortune of the Furioso in the XVIth Cen.” AATI. Atlanta, 1987.

“Bruni's Hellenism: The Peri tes ton Phlorentinon politeias.” AAIS. Pittsburgh, 1987.

“The Syntax of Dance in Dante: Inferno VII.” AAIS. Pittsburgh, 1987.

“Reappraising Poliziano's Greek Poetry.” Classical Asso. of Atlantic States. NY, 1986.

“Architectural Ekphrasis in Poliziano's Stanze.” Philological Asso. of Carolinas.

Charleston, 1986.

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“A New Reading of Inferno XIII.” Philological Association of Carolinas. Charleston, 1983.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND NATIONAL SERVICE

Dante Society of America, Prize Selection Committee, 2011-2013; chair 2013-2014

Reviewer for Dissertation Completion Fellowships of the Andrew W. Mellon

Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program, 2010-2012

MLA, Marraro-Scaglione Prize Selection Committee, 2010-2012

MLA, Division of Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature, Executive Committee, 2006-2010

Program Reviews:

Dept. of Romance Studies, Cornell University, 2013

CAPA International Education, Florence, Italy, 2012

Dept. of French, German, Italian, and Slavic, Temple University, 2011

Dept. of Modern Languages, University of Richmond, 2009

Doctor of Modern Languages Program, Middlebury College Language Schools, 2005

Association of Depts of Foreign Languages, Executive Committee, 2002-04; President, 2004

Profession, Editorial Advisory Committee, 2002-2003

Memberships: MLA, Renaissance Society of America (RSA), American Association of

Italian Studies (AAIS), Dante Alighieri Society, American Boccaccio Association

MLA, Discussion Group on the Classics and Modern Literature (Executive Committee, 1988-92)

Organizer: “Classics in the Vernacular” 1992; “Ghosts, Phantoms, Apparitions” 1995

Reviewer of articles for PMLA, Classical World, Lectura Dantis, Quaderni d’italianistica,

Allegorica, Renaissance Quarterly, International Journal of the Classical Tradition,

Olifant, Rivista di Studi Italiani, NEMLA Journal, Carl Beck Papers (U Pittsburgh),

Oxford Journal of the Reception of the Classics, Medievalia et Humanistica, Journal

of Early Modern Cultural Studies, Journal of American Studies, California Italian

Studies

Reviewer of book manuscripts/proposals for University of Pennsylvania Press, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Oxford University Press, Pegasus Press, Grolier Books,

Marshall Cavendish Books, Palgrave-St. Martin’s, Johns Hopkins University Press,

University of Toronto Press, Fordham University Press, Ashgate, University of Chicago Press,

Harvard University Press, University of Notre Dame Press, Norton Press

Advisory Editorial Board, “Paradigmi dell’immaginario tra letteratura e geografia,” Editore Mimesis

Editorial Board, Annali d’Italianistica

Tenure and promotion cases at various universities and colleges in North America

DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE (from 1990-2013 at the University of Pittsburgh)

Provost’s Information Technology Steering Committee, 2012-2013

Honors College Dean Search Committee, 2011

Provost Search Committee, 2010

Diversity Liaison for French and Italian, 2006-2010

Cultural Studies Executive Committee, 2009-2010

Senate Committee on University Library System, 2009-2012; Chair, 2011-December 2012

A&S and Senate Nominating Committees, 2005-2006; 2008

Senate Committee on Admissions and Aid, 2003-2006

Chair, Internal Review Committee of Semester at Sea Academic Program, 2003-2004

Chair, Internal Review Committee of Asian Studies Program, 2002

Member, Internal Review Committee of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, 2001

FAS Graduate Council, 2001-2003

PACIE, Provost’s Advisory Committee on Instructional Excellence, 2001-2003

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Chair, Committee on Faculty Development, 2001-2003

Semester at Sea Advisory Board, 2001-2004

Departmental Webmaster, 1999-2003

CAS Dean’s Advisory Committee on Foreign Languages, 1998-2002, Chair, 2001-2002

Planning and Budget Committee (PBC) for CWES, for UCIS, for Provost, 1997-1999

Executive Committee Member, Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, 1995-1999

PACUP, Provost's Advisory Committee on Undergraduate Programs, 1995-1997

FAS Representative to Senate Committee for Elections, 1995-1996

FAS Planning and Budget Committee, 1994-1995

FAS Council, 1992-1995; 2001-2002

Hewlett International Small Grants Committee, 1994; 2002; 2012

Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, 1994-1996

CAS adviser to undergraduate majors in Italian, 1990-1996

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Committee, 1993; 2004

FAS Grants Committee, 1990; 1992

Chair, Internal Review Committee of Department of Classics, 1992-1993

CAS Study Abroad Advisory Committee, 1991-1996

West European Studies Advisory Committee, 1991-1993

Mellon Post-Doctoral Selection Committee, 1992

Director/organizer of Pitt-in-Italy, summer program of study in Italy, 1991-2013

COURSES TAUGHT AT PITT

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN ENGLISH:

Freshman Studies (0001)

Italian Cultural Heritage I: Middle Ages to Renaissance (0080)

Italian Cultural Heritage II: From Early Modern to Contemporary Italy (0081)

The Divine Comedy (1081)

The Renaissance in Italy (1082); taught in Pittsburgh over the years; in Florence, Italy, spring 2013

Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio (1085)

Special Topics: Literary Rome (1089)

Special Topics: Anglo-American Expatriates in Florence (1089)

Special Topics: Venice and the Veneto (1089)

Special Topics: Leonardo, Galileo, and other Italian Scientists (1089)

Special Topics in History and Philosophy of Science: Voyages of Discovery (HPS 1690)

Special Topics: Sicily at the Crossroads of the Mediterranean (1902)

Director of Independent Projects, Internships, Honors Theses (B. Phil.)

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN ITALIAN:

Intermediate Italian (0003-0004)

Conversation (0050-0051)

Survey of Italian Culture I + II (0060-0061)

Introduction to Literary Italian I + II (0060-0061)

Structure and Phonetics (1031)

Special Topics: Machiavelli and Guicciardini (1060)

Special Topics: Boccaccio and the World of the Trecento (1060)

Special Topics: Italy and the Question of Italian Identity in the 19th Century (1060)

Dante I + Dante II (1061+1062)

Petrarch and Boccaccio (1063)

Lyric Poetry (1065)

Epic Poetry (1066)

Director of Independent Projects and Internships

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Created, organized, directed, and taught courses for Pitt in Italy

1991-94 (Feltre); 1996-98 (Rome); 1999 + 2002 (Florence); 2006 (Syracuse); 2013 (Florence)

GRADUATE:

The Duecento: Poetry of the “Sweet New Style” (2100)

Dante’s Commedia and Its Reception (2200)

Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the Origins of Humanism in the Trecento (2201)

Florentine Neoplatonism from the Quattrocento to Cinquecento (2300)

Renaissance Humanism (2315)

Ariosto and Vernacular Classicism (2320)

Problems and Methods in Literary Criticism (2700)

The Discourse of Science in Italian Literature (2750)

History of the Italian Language (2801)

Introduction to the Study of Literature (Italian 2710, French 2710, German 2210)

Special Topics courses for graduate students from Italian, Art History, Communications, English on:

Dante, Ferrarese Renaissance, Word and Image, Machiavelli, Pietro Bembo, Petrarchism

Co-director of G. Baika, “Lingua Indisciplinata: A Study of Transgressive Speech in the

Romance of the Rose and the Divine Comedy” (French and Romance Languages, 2007).

Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages, Florida Tech University

Member of the following doctoral dissertation committees:

D. Seward (Classics, 1991), L. Brondum (Music, 1991), R. Crum (Art History, 1992),

T. Pajares (Spanish, 1995), R. Gilday (Art History, 1996), J. Craven (Art History, 1996),

J. Marcinyzyn (Music, 1998), D. Trutta-Szabo (German, 1998), P. Kellar (Spanish, 1999),

P. Pears (French, 2001), J. Adamitis (Classics, 2003), B. Reinhardt (Music, 2005),

P. Costa (Art History, 2006), A. Rejaie (Art History, 2006), F. Garcia (Music, 2006),

F. Di Poppa (History and Philosophy of Science, 2006), N. Vivalda (Spanish, 2006),

M. Choseed (English, 2007), M. Stevens (Music, 2007), B. Haller (Classics, 2007),

R. Purcell (English, 2008), M. Deininger (French, 2009), E. O’Bryan (Classics, 2011),

C. Galati (Italian, Rutgers University, 2011); M. Fromm (Music, 2012); F. Caneparo

(Italianistica, Scuola Normale di Pisa, 2012); G. Heverly (Classics, 2013); Nic Thorne (Classics,

2013); John Scanlon (Classics, 2014); James Jewitt (Art History, 2014); A. Korzeniewski

(Classics, 2015).

MA Theses directed

A. Biordi-Elson (1990), director, Pittsburgh Literary Council

G. Fogli (1990), Yale PhD 1997, lecturer, University of California, Riverside

P. Quisenberry (1992), career in healthcare

G. Biagi (1992), journalist, Cremona, Italy

M. Contini (1994), foreign language instructor, Politecnico di Milano

B. Malvisi (1994), instructor of Italian, West Virginia University

K. Koster (1995), ESL instructor, Pace University, New York

N. Itri (1995), career in business in Italy

A. Bertonasco (2000), journalist, Genoa, Italy

M. Vito (2003), U Cal Berkeley PhD 2008, visiting asst professsor, Univ Oklahoma

F. Passerini (2007), lecturer, St. Vincent’s U

ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN IN SUPPORT OF MY TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE WORK ARTICLES “Reading Herodotus in Renaissance Europe, 1429-1600.” In University of Pittsburgh Newsletter of

Looney, Page 14

EUS/EUCE (October 2011): 1, 6-8.

“Introducing Gender and Race into the Curriculum of Medieval Italian Studies.” In Diversity Across the

Curriculum: A Guide for Faculty in Higher Education. Eds. J. Branche, E.R.Cohn, and

J. Mullennix. Bolton, MA: Anker Press, 2007. 70-74.

“What is Italian, Who speaks it, and Where?”In The Five-Minute Linguist: Bite-sized Essays on Language

and Languages. Eds. E.M. Rickerson and Barry Hilton. London: Equinox Books, 2006. 223-27.

Revised second edition, 2011.

“What Should You Expect from the MLA Job Interview?” ADFL Bulletin 37 (2005): 30-32.

“Introduction.” Language and Literature in the Academy. ADFL Bulletin 36 (2004): 4-8.

“Some of My Best Friends are Foreign Language Teachers.” ADFL Bulletin 32 (2001): 37-38.

“Re-imagining the Canon.” University of Pittsburgh Teaching Times VI/1 (2000): 13.

“Want to Talk about Teaching?” University of Pittsburgh Teaching Times II/2 (1992): 1-2

CONFERENCES

“Introduction to Dante.” Special session, annual meeting, PA Council on International Education. Oct 2012.

Respondent to Geoffrey Harpham, “The Humanities as a Foreign Language,” University Pittsburgh

Humanities Center. November 2010.

Keynote speaker, European Studies Undergrad Research Symposium, “Material Culture and Research:

The Case of Ralph Ellison and the Integration of European Culture into America.” U Pitt, 2008.

Presenter at MLA. “Representing Foreign Language Education at Federal Level in US.” Chicago, 2007.

Presenter at MLA/ADFL forum on the Humanities in Crisis. Washington, D.C., 2005.

Presenter at MLA/ADFL forum on “Undergraduate Students as Collaborators in Foreign Language

Research.” San Diego, December 2003.

Participant in Transformations: Technology, Foreign Languages, and Undergraduate Education,

seminar organized by Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, MIT, October 1998.

Participant in ADFL Seminars for Department Heads, 1998-2004; 2007.

Invited Speaker, ADFL Meeting, Univ. of Texas, Austin, 2001, “The State of Our Ship.”

Organizer of Workshop for New Chairs, ADFL, Snowbird, Utah, 2003; Albuquerque, 2004.

Participant in ACTFL Workshop on Collaboration across Disciplines: Innovative Language Pedagogy

Through European Union Issues, ACTFL Conference, Nashville, November 1997

Participant at conference on Freshman Year Experience, U South Carolina, 1996

Participant at forum on teaching excellence, American Association of Higher Education, Chicago, 1992

OTHER

U of Pittsburgh, Classic Clips Video on Teaching, 2006

University of Pittsburgh, Faculty Seminar on Communication across the Curriculum, Fall 2004

University of Pittsburgh, Student Government Board, Faculty Honor Roll, 1999-2000

University of Pittsburgh, Faculty Seminar on Diversity and Inclusion, May 13-24, 1996

Faculty sponsor of Chancellor's Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship, 1994, 2008, 2009

Hewlett Small Grant for Curricular Development, UCIS, 1993 (Italian 1089: Italian Scientists)

Phi Eta Sigma, National Freshman Honor Society, U Pittsburgh Chapter, 1992

CAS Grant for Curricular Development, 1992 (to revamp Italian 0080-0081)

1995 (for new course, Italian 1089, Literary Rome)

1996 (for ‘electronic Dante’ additions to several courses)

Office of Faculty Development Grant, 1987 (for ‘grammar corner’ in Italian)

OTHER ACTIVITIES Pittsburgh Public School District, Fulton French Academy, Director, Project in FLES, 2007-2009

Member, Board of Directors, American Italian Cultural Institute, Pittsburgh, 1998-2006

Advisory Committee, Italian American Program, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, 1998-2003

Mt. Lebanon School District, Director of Language Samplers Project for Sixth Graders, 1995-1997