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Elsa Filosa

Elsa Filosa, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer in Italian

 

 

 

 

 

Education

Laurea in Lettere, Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy), 2000

Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005

Research interests

The three crowns, particularly Giovanni Boccaccio
Intertextuality between Boccaccio’s Works and Classical Literature
Friendship and Reciprocal Influences between Petrarch and Boccaccio
Italian Novella from Origin to Renaissance
Medieval Representation of Women
Adaptation of Medieval and Renaissance Texts on the Screen

 

Representative publications

Books

Tre Saggi sul De mulieribus claris: I modelli – I Rapporti con il Decameron – Esemplarità umanistica al femminile. Milano: LED, 2012. Under contract.

Editor, with Michael Papio, of Boccaccio in America. Proceedings of the 2010 International Boccaccio Conference at The University of Massachusetts Amherst. Ravenna: Longo, 2012. Under contract.

Articles

“The Seventh Day of the Decameron.” Annali d’Italianistica. The Parodist at Work in the Decameron: Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages 31 (2013). Accepted.
“The First Dante Biography: Il Trattatello in Laude di Dante.” Boccaccio: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works. Eds. Victoria Kirkham, Michael Sherberg and Janet Smarr. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2012. Accepted.

“The Tale of King Agilulf and his Groom (Dec. III.2).” The Decameron: Third Day in Perspective. Lectura Boccaccii. Eds. Pier Massimo Forni and Francesco Ciabattoni. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2012. Accepted.

“Breve storia dell’American Boccaccio Association.” Boccaccio in America. Proceedings of the 2010 International Boccaccio Conference at The University of Massachusetts Amherst. Ravenna: Longo, 2012. Accepted.

“American Boccaccio Bibliography for 2010.” In collaboration with Christopher Kleinhenz. Heliotropia 8 (2011).

“American Boccaccio Bibliography for 2009.” In collaboration with Christopher Kleinhenz. Heliotropia 7 (2010).

“American Boccaccio Bibliography for 2005-2008.”  Compiled in collaboration with Christopher Kleinhenz. Heliotropia 6 (2009).

“Modalità di contatto tra Decameron e Corbaccio: Giovenale nella novella di Monna Sismonda (Dec. VII 8) .” Modern Language Notes 122.1 (2007): 123-32.

“Boccaccio tra storia e invenzione: Dal De fide uxorum erga viros di Valerio Massimo al De mulieribus claris.” Romance Quarterly 54.3 (2007): 219-30.

“Intertestualità tra Decameron e De mulieribus claris: La tragica storia di Tisbe e Piramo.” Heliotropia 3.1-2 (2005-06).

“Secretum e Corbaccio: Possibili interferenze?” Atti del Convegno ‘Petrarca e la Lombardia.’ Milano, 22-23 Maggio 2003. Ed. Giuseppe Frasso, Giuseppe Velli and Maurizio Vitale. Milano: Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, 2005. 211-19.

“Il mondo alla rovescia nella ‘valle delle donne’: eros muliebre e trasgressione sociale nel Decameron.” La Fusta 13 (2004-05): 9-18.

“Dante, Alberto Magno e le pietre preziose: una nota su ambra e alabastro.” Dante Studies 122 (2004): 173-80.

“Petrarca, Boccaccio e le mulieres clarae: dalla Familiare XXI 8 al De mulieribus claris.” Annali d’Italianistica 22 (2004): 381-95.

“Ancora su Seneca (e Giovenale) nel Decameron.” Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana 175 (1998): 210-219.

Honors, Fellowships, and Awards
Secretary of the American Boccaccio Association (2008-2011).
Dana B. Drake Teaching Award, 2004.  Awarded by Department of Romance Languages and Literatures of the UNC at Chapel Hill in recognition of excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Graduate Dissertation Completion Reserach Fellowship, 2004-2005.  Awarded by the Graduate School of the UNC at Chapel Hill.  This highly competitive, merit-based award provides one-year total financial support with no teaching requirements.

E.Filosa Curriculum Vitae Nov-2011

 

 

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