“Many Vernaculars, Many Reformations” in Huntington Library Quarterly, Volume 89, number 1 (Spring 2026): 37–40.
“The Role of the European Summer University in Creating a Values-Driven Digital Humanities Community” in Vielfalt und Integration / Diversità ed integrazione / Diversité et intégration. Festschrift zu Ehren von Elisabeth Burr, eds. Marie Annisius et al. Universität Leipzig Press (2022): 185-192.
The European Summer University in Digital Humanities, under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr, has set forth a set of values that underpin a collaborative, communal and compassionate future for higher education. This contribution identifies three values that form the centerpiece of the ESU’s activities — inclusiveness, experimentation, and vulnerability — and reflects on these values from the perspective of instructors and students.
“Dante for Mothers,” in Dante Beyond Borders. Contexts and Reception, ed. Nick Havely, Jonathan Katz, Richard Cooper. Legenda: 2021
Book chapter Part of ISBN: 978-1-781888-38-4
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Reviews: Quaderni d’italianistica, 45.1(2024) https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1118123ar
Lettere italiane, 74.2 (2022) https://www.jstor.org/stable/27298679
“Beatrice in the Tag Cloud” in Approaches to Teaching Dante’s Comedy ed. C. Kleinhenz and K. Olsen, MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature (2018): 257-261.
Book chapter Part of ISBN: 9781603294287
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Reviews: Annali d’Italianistica, 38 (2020) https://www.jstor.org/stable/27119762
Italian Culture 40.1 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1080/01614622.2022.2040131
Italica 100.4 (2023) https://www.jstor.org/stable/48786413
Dante’s Volume from Alpha to Omega, ed. Carol Chiodo and Christiana Purdy Moudarres. Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies / (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) v. 577) 2021
Book ISBN: 9780866986359
This collection of essays examines how Dante’s spiritual quest is powered by an encyclopedic one, which has for more than seven centuries drawn a readership as diverse as the knowledge his work contains. The essays investigate both the intellectual and spiritual pleasures that Dante’s Commedia affords, underscoring how, through the sheer breadth of its knowledge, the poem demands collective and collaborative inquiry. Rather than isolating the poetic or theological strands of the Commedia, the book acts as a bridge across disciplines, braiding together the well-worn strands of poetry and theology with those of philosophy, the sciences, and the arts.
“Hitting the Mark: Projectile Motion and the “segno lieto” in Dante’s Commedia,” in Dante’s Volume from Alpha to Omega, ed. Carol Chiodo and Christiana Purdy Moudarres, Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies v. 577) 2021
Book chapter Part of ISBN: 9780866986359
“Hitting the Mark” examines medieval theories concerning projectile motion in light of Dante’s contributions to that scientific debate in his Commedia. Drawn from my dissertation research on Dante’s metaphors of technology, this chapter has been subsequently revised and will appear in my monograph, Lyric Knowledge.
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“De nostri temporis studiorum ratione and the Digital Humanities,” NeMLA Italian Studies Special Issue, The Italian Digital Classroom, XXXIX (2017)
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This short essay reflects on how an Italian philosopher of the Enlightenment, Giambattista Vico, and his question about “current study methods” can guide today’s digitally inflected approaches to a liberal arts education.
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“Tutti i frutti: The Fruits of Treachery and the Roots of the Soul in Inferno” in Table Talk. Perspectives on Food in Italian Literature, ed. C. Purdy Moudarres, Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
Book chapter Part of ISBN: 9781443825115
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This chapter takes Dante’s knowledge of horticulture and the technology of grafting as a point of departure for exploring metaphors that bind the processes of fruit cultivation to the cultivation of the soul. A revised portion of this paper will appear in the monograph, Lyric Knowledge.
Book Review, Gelosia del sole. Girolamo Britonio. Ed. Mikaël Romanato. Travaux d’Humanism et Renaissance 597; Textes et Travaux de la Fondation Barbier-Mueller pour l’Étude de la poésie italienne de la Renaissance 4. Geneva: Droz, 2019. 840 pp. $106.80, Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 75 , Issue 4 , Winter 2022 , pp. 1304 – 1306, doi:10.1017/rqx.2022.334
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