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HISTORY
In 1995, William and Katherine Devers of Winnetka, Illinois, established the Devers Program in Dante Studies through a generous $1 million gift to the University of Notre Dame. William Devers is president of the Devers Group, Inc., a consortium of computer companies providing application software to the publishing, utility and other industries. He is also a member of the advisory council for Notre Dame's College of Arts and Letters. The Devers have four children, one of whom graduated from the Notre Dame Law School in 1990. The Devers have also endowed a library collection for the Kresge Law Library at Notre Dame.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DEVERS PROGRAM
1995-1996 – Inaugural celebration in March; first lecture series; invitation to participate in Progetto Italica; publication of Devers Series in Dante Studies Volume 1: Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies edited by Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. ... [More]
1997-1998 – Mini-seminars dedicated to Dante's minor works; Fall lecture series; publication of Devers Series in Dante Studies Volume 2: The Fiore in Context: Dante, France, Tuscany, ed. Z. Baranski and P. Boyde; launched ItalNet, making available the Opera del Vocabolario (OVI) database of Italian vernacular texts from before 1375 ... [More]
1998-1999 – Mini-seminars dedicated to Dante's minor works, Fall lecture series entitled "Diversely Dante"; publication of Devers Series in Dante Studies Volume 3: The Design in the Wax by Marc Cogan; launch of the Franco-Italian On-Line Archive (FIOLA), a database of texts written in mixed French and Italian language ... [More]
1999-2000 – Mini-seminars dedicated to Dante's minor works, Fall lecture series entitled "Dante and Modern Italian Poetry"; publication of Devers Series in Dante Studies Volume 4: The Fiore (and the Detto d'amore) by Christopher
Kleinhenz and Santa Casciani; Teachers As Scholars (TAS) program; Ambrosiana Drawings Project ... [More]
2000-2001 – Fall lecture series "Dante Across the Curriculum" (lectures by Piero Boitani, Gary Cestaro, and Manuele Gragnolati); Spring lecture "Dante – Time & Eternity" (by John Scott); support of research into the history and significance of the Zahm Dante Collection at the University of Notre Dame ... [More]
2001-2002 – Fall lecture series "The Languages of Italy"; launch of post-doctoral fellowship in Dante and Italian Studies; co-sponsor of Medieval Manuscripts Conference ... [More]
2002-2003 – Launch of the Distinguished Visiting Professor series with the appointment of Piero Boitani; lectures by Remo Ceserani and William J. Kennedy; co-sponsored Spring lecture and panel discussion with Roland Greene on “English and the Foreign Languages”; publication of Devers Series in Dante Studies Volume 5: Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body by Gary P. Cestaro ... [More]
2003-2004 – Hosted the fourth International Dante Seminar; Fall appointment of Franco Ferrucci as Distinguished Visiting Professor ... [More]
2004-2005 – Fall lecture series "Dante and Petrarch"; Fall appointment of Zygmunt G. Baranski as Distinguished Visiting Professor; publication of both Devers Series in Dante Studies Volume 6: Understanding Dante by John Scott, and Le culture di Dante. Studi in onore di Robert Hollander, the volume of proceedings from the International Dante Seminar ... [More]
2005-2006 – Fall appointment of Piero Boitani as Distinguished Visiting Professor; Spring meeting dedicated to the discussion of “The Place of Italian Studies in the Modern University”; publication of Devers Series in Dante Studies Volume 7: Manuele Gragnolati's Experiencing the Afterlife Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture ... [More]
2006-2007 – University of Rome-Notre Dame Humanities conference; "Work in Progress" conference; Fall appointment of Zygmunt Baranski as Distinguished Visiting Professor for 2006-07 and 2007-08 academic years; publication of Devers Series in Dante Studies Volume 8: Accounting for Dante: Urban Readers and Writers in Late Medieval Italy by Justin Steinberg ... [More]
2007-2008 – An international seminar on "Dante and the Contemplative Tradition"; lectures by Gary Ferguson (University of Delaware) and Vittorio Montemaggi (Cambridge), and a seminar by Claudio Giunta (University of Trento); offered for the first time a Summer Scholar Dante course for high schools students, sponsored by Notre Dame's Summer Scholar Programs; publication of Devers Series in Dante Studies Volume 9: The Ancient Flame: Dante as a Classical Poet (by Winthrop Wetherbee) ... [More]
2008-2009 – An international colloquium on "The Italian Duecento"; an international trans-disciplinary symposium titled "Why Italy?"; the appointment of Laurence Hooper as Devers Program in Dante Studies post-doctoral fellow for the spring semester of 2009 and SY 2009-10; publication of Devers Series in Dante Studies Volume 10: Petrarch & Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition (edited by Zygmunt G. Baranski and Theodore Cachey) ... [More]
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