Director
Maria Luisa Ardizzone 
(New York University)

Advisory Board
Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia University)
Giovanni Bazoli (Università Cattolica di Milano)
Ruth Ben-Ghiat (New York University)
Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; Global Distinguished Professor, NYU)
Virginia Cox (New York University)
John Freccero (New York University)
Hermann Haller (City University of New York)
Alfred Ivry(New York University)
Daniel Javitch (New York University)
Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale University)
Jane Tylus (New York University)
Paolo Valesio (Columbia University)

Program 2008-2009

Silvano Nigro (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
lecture title and date: TBA

Giovanni Bazoli (Università Cattolica di Milano)
lecture title and date: TBA

Barbara Spackman (University of California, Berkeley)  
lecture title and date: TBA

All lectures are held at the Department of Italian Studies
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
24 West 12th Street, 2nd floor
Phone 212-998-8730


Past Lectures (2007-2008)

First lecture
Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; Global Distinguished Professor, NYU)
"Dante e la memoria appassionata"
Monday, October 22, 2007

Second lecture
Mary Carruthers (Remarque Professor of Literature, NYU; Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford)
"The Paradox of Sweetness (dolcezza)"
Monday, October 29, 2007

Third lecture
Paolo Valesio (Giuseppe Ungaretti Professor of Italian Literature, Columbia University)
"Insinuations of the Fantastic"
Monday, November 12, 2007

Fourth lecture
Giuseppe Mazzotta (Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University)
"The Emergence of Modernity and the New World"
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Fifth lecture
Albert Russell Ascoli (Gladys Arata Terrill Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley)
"The Ugly, the Stupid, and the Dead: Boccaccio's Emilia and the Poetics of Speculation in Decameron, Day 6"
Thursday, March 6, 2008

Past Lectures (2005-2006)

First lecture
John Freccero (New York University)
"The Shipwreck of the Convivio: Dante and the Mystery of the Supernatural"
Thursday, November 17, 2005

Second lecture
Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia)
"Reading Dante's Lyrics: Philology and Interpretation"
Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Third lecture
Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; Global Distinguished Professor, NYU)
"Il mito della lettura come dialogo da Petrarca a Tasso"
Tuesday, December 6, 2005

Fourth lecture
Hermann Haller (City University of New York)
"Italy's Other Voices: The Literary Dialects Across Time and Space"
Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Fifth lecture
Daniel Javitch (New York University)
"The Repudiation and the Allure of Chivalric Romance in Cinquecento Poetics"
Wednesday, March 29, 2006