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POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
Previous Post-Doctoral Fellowships
2006-2007 — Chiara Sbordoni
Chiara Sbordoni, a 2006 Ph.D. in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature from the Università La Sapienza in Rome, was the post-doctoral fellow during the 2006-2007 school year.
Sbordoni's dissertation, which she is revising and expanding for publication, is the first comprehensive catalogue and study of fictional letters found in texts of all the main literary genres of Italian literature from the 14th century to the end of the 16th century. Besides epistolography, she is interested in the impact of literary models from the classical tradition on medieval authors such as Dante and Boccaccio and has worked on the influence of Ovid on Boccaccio's Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta. She published an article on the relationship between Dante's Comedy and St. John's Apocalypse.
At Notre Dame Sbordoni taught "Introduction to Medieval and Renaisance Italian Literature", "Textual Analysis", "Italian Language" and "Dante I".
2002-2003 — Justin Steinberg
Justin Steinberg, a 2000 University of Minnesota Ph.D. in English, was the post-doctoral fellow during the 2002-2003 school year. Professor Steinberg went on to join the faculty of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago in 2003.
Steinberg's scholarship focuses on medieval Italian literature, especially on Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, the early lyric, manuscript culture, and literary historiography. His recent book Accounting for Dante: Urban Readers and Writers in Late Medieval Italy (Notre Dame: Notre Dame UP, 2007) won the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Manuscript in Italian Studies awarded by the Modern Language Association. He has also published articles on the Compiuta donzella (the first female poet of Italian literature), Dante's dreams in the Vita Nuova, and Petrarch's uncollected poems.
2001-2002 — John Kerr
John Kerr, a 2001 University of Notre Dame Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, was the first post-doctoral fellow in Dante and Italian Studies during the the 2001-2002 academic year. He is currrently an Assistant Professor of English at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.
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