Faculty
Rachel Jacoff
Rachel Jacoff teaches courses in Italian literature as well as courses
in the Medieval/Renaissance program. In Fall 2001, she is offering
Dante (in translation) and Medieval Women Writers. Her major research
interest is Dante's Divine Comedy. She has written many articles on
Dante and co-authored a monograph on Inferno II (University of
Pennsylvania Press) for the Lectura Dantis Americana series sponsored
by the Dante Society of America. She edited a collection of essays by
John Freccero, Dante: The Poetics of Conversion (Harvard UP, 1986) which received Honorable Mention for the Marraro Prize from the Modern Language Association.
She co-edited and contributed two essays to The Poetry of Allusion: Virgil and Ovid in Dante (Stanford UP, 1990). She also edited The Cambridge Companion to Dante (Cambridge UP, 1993), and co-edited (with Peter Hawkins) The Poet's Dante
which was published in February 2001. She has received grants from NEH
and the Guggenheim Foundation and has been a fellow of the Bunting
Institute, the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti),
the Stanford Humanities Center, the Rockfeller Foundation's Villa
Serbelloni and the Liguria Study Center in Bogliasco. She was a Phi
Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar in 1996-7. Her current research concerns
Dante and the visual arts and the representation of the body in the Divine Comedy.
*Header images from Web Gallery of Art
"La Disputa (detail)" - 1510-1511, RAFFAELLO Sanzio
"Study for Adam" - 1509, RAFFAELLO Sanzio
"Portrait of Maddalena Doni" - 1506, RAFFAELLO Sanzio
"Young Man With an Apple" - 1505, RAFFAELLO Sanzio
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