Curriculum Vitae
ABBREVIATED
Atalanta, great warrior and huntress of Roman mythology.
The "Barberini Atalanta", formerly in the Barberini Palace, Rome, now in the Vatican, inv. 2784. Either Greek original, 1st century BC or Roman copy, 2nd century AD
EDUCATION
2009 Ph.D., Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation title: “Aristotelian Ethics in Italian Vernacular Philosophical Prose
1260-1308: Brunetto, Bono and Dante”
Chair: Prof. Rita Copeland
Readers: Prof. Kevin Brownlee, Prof. James Ross, Prof. Fabio Finotti
2005 M.A., Department of Comparative Literature; University of Pennsylvania
2004 M.A., Department of Romance Languages: Italian; University of Pennsylvania
Research requirement paper: “The Revenge of the Chora: A Kristevian Reading
of Pasolini’s ‘ Medea ’”
Supervisor: Prof. Millicent Marcus
2003 M.A., Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese: Italian; University of Virginia
Thesis: “Social Animals: Animal Imagery in Manzoni’s ‘ I Promessi Sposi’ ”
Supervisor: Prof. Cristina Della Coletta
2001 B.A. with Distinction, Department of Italian, University of Virginia
Thesis: “ ’Il Gattopardo’ da Lampedusa a Visconti: Uno studio nell’arte
dell’adattamento ”
Supervisor: Prof. Cristina Della Coletta
2001 B.A., Department of English, University of Virginia
Thesis: “Norse Mythological Analogues in ‘Beowulf’”
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Baker