Prof. Mazzotta Resume - Dante`s Divine Comedy

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ABRIDGED CURRICULUM VITAE
Giuseppe F. Mazzotta
Yale University
Department of Italian
P.O. Box 208311
New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8311
Phone (203) 432-0598 FAX (203) 432-2164
148 Peck Hill Rd.
Woodbridge, Connecticut 06525
(203) 393-3336
E-Mail: [email protected]
Born at Curinga, Italy, January 1, 1942, married with 3 children.
Ph.D.
M.A.
B.A.
1969
1966
1965
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
University of Toronto
POSITION: Sterling Professor in the Humanities for Italian
Chair, Italian Studies Department, Yale University
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2012
MLN: Italian Issue, Essays in Honor of Giuseppe Mazzotta Supplement to MLN, vol. 127, No. 1
(2012).
2012-Nov. 10
HONORARY DEGREE, Doctor in Sacred Letters honoris causa (Univ. of St. Michael’s
College in the University of Toronto).
2012 –May 12
HONORARY DEGREE, Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa (The Catholic University of
..
America).
2010
Holder of the Chair of Italian Culture (Berkley, Ca. Feb.2- March 10, 2010).
2009 spring
Old Dominion Fellow in the Humanities Council. Princeton University
2008
Member of Committee of “Centro Europeo di Studi Rossettiani”
Oct.13-28, 2007 Fellow American Academy in Rome
Jan. 2007
Elected Member, Circle Fondazione Lorenzo Valla (Rome, Italy).
2007
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Rossetti Circle, University of Chieti
Sept. 2003
Awarded Prize “Olivo d’Argento” ( Cosenza, Italy)
June 2003
Honorary Title: Cavaliere della Repubblica italiana
July 20, 2002
Awarded Prize “Premio Citta` di Curinga 2002”
Dec. 1, 2001
Awarded “Ignazio Silone International Literary Prize”
2001
Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science
2001
Awarded The Harwood F. Byrnes/Richard B. Sewall Prize for Distinguished Teaching (Yale).
1999
Board of Commissioners of Cuyahoga County, Ohio recognition for improving the understanding
of the Italian American experience.
1994
Member, Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
1994
Elected member, The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
1993
Elected to Honorary Membership (Socio Onorario) of the XVI century Accademia Cosentina, Italy
1992-95
Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University
1989
Member, Advisory Commitee of the Yale Boswell Editions
1986-87
Guggenheim Fellow
1986-87
Yale Senior Fellowship
1983
Elected member, The Academy of Literary Studies
1980-81
Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University
1978-79
Fellow, ACLS, Rome, Italy
Summer-77
NEH Fellow
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
(abbreviated)
Member, Editorial Board, of journal, Le Tre Corone (2012-). (Cambridge Univ.)
Member Executive Committee, “Centro Studi danteschi”, Ravenna, Italy
President, Dante Society of America (Elected 2003-2009 ).
Member of the Council, Dante Society of America (Elected 2001-)
Executive Committee (1995-96), Member of the Council, Medieval Academy of America (1993-96)
Advisory Board, William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies, University of Notre Dame (1994)
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Dante alle frontiere del pensiero:limite e grandezza dell’umano (Rome: Edizione di storia e letteratura, 2013).
Lectures on the Divine Comedy, OPEN YALE COURSES, (New Haven: Yale UP, forthcoming in 2013)
Dante, Poet of the Desert: History and Allegory in the Divine Comedy. (Princeton: PUP, 1979).
The World at Play: A Study of Boccaccio’s Decameron. (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1986).
Dante, Poet of the Desert. Paperback Edition. (Princeton: PUP, 1987).
Dante’s Vision and the Circle of Knowledge. (Princeton: PUP, 1993). [Choice’s Outstanding Academic Books of
1993.]
The Worlds of Petrarch. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993).
The New Map of the World: The Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico. (Princeton, Princeton UP, Dec.,1998).
Cosmopoiesis: The Renaissance Experiment. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001).
TRANSLATIONS of MY WORKS
Italian translation: La nuova mappa del mondo: la filosofia poetica di Giambattista Vico. Trans. M. Simonetta
(Turin:Einaudi. 1999).
Italian Translation: Cosmopoiesi:Il progetto del rinascimento. Trans. S. Baldassarri (Palermo:Sellerio, 2008).
Scandinavian Translation: Cosmopoiesis. Renessansens porsjekt. Trans. Kristin Gjerpe. Postface by U. Falkeid
(Oslo: Cappellem Akademisk Forlag, 2009).
Monographs:
Giambattista Vico e La nuova mappa del mondo . Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (METIS-Naples, 1996).
Dante Between Philosophers and Theologians: Paradiso X-XIII”.Bernardo Lectures Series No. 11 (Center for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Binghamton, N.Y. 2004).
La Vergine Maria nella Letteratura (Curinga: Biblioteca Comunale di Curinga, 2009).
Editions:
Inferno, Dante Alighieri, trans. M. Palma; ed. Giuseppe Mazzotta (A Norton Critical Edition) New York, 2007
Critical Essays on Dante. (Boston: Hall, 1991).
General Co-Editor, Mimesis in Contemporary Theory. The Literary and Philosophical Debate. (Philadelphia and
Amsterdam: J. Benjamins, 1984).
Coed, Magister Regis: Studies in Honor of R. E. Kaske. (New York: Fordham University Press, 1986).
Coed. Dante Studies vol. CXXVIII (Cambrdige, Mass.: The Dante Society of America, 2010) (publ. 2011).
MAJOR ARTICLES, excluding approximately fifty written between 1972-2000:
"Theology and Exile," Dante, edited by Jeremy Tambling, (New York: Addison Wesley Longman Inc., 1999) pp.
137-159.
"Croce on Vico," The Legacy of Benedetto Croce, edited by Jack DiAmico et al. (Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 1999) pp. 163-173.
"La perspectiva lúdica de Don Quijote: Clavileño y la Cueva de Montesinos, En un lugar de La Mancha: Estudios
cervantinos en honor de Manuel Durán,Georgina Dopico Black and Roberto González Echevarría (Ediciones
Almar, 1999) pp. 179-195.
"Liminalità e utopia della letteratura," 3 Intersezioni Rivista di storia delle idee il Mulino anno XIX, dicembre 1999,
pp. 363-78.
Forward, The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales New Essays on an Old Question , edited by Leonard Michael
Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen (London: Associated University Presses, Inc., 2000) pp. 7-8.
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"Machiavelli Nell'Orlando Furioso," Quaderni Lucchesi, Istituto Storico Lucchese (Lucca, Italy, Jan.-June 2000)
pp.209-232.
Preface, Images of Quattrocento Florence Selected Writings in Literature, History, and Art edited by Stefano Ugo
Baldassarri and Arielle Saiber. Italian Literature and Thought Series, (New Haven &London: Yale University Press,
2000), xi-xiii.
Introduction, Sparks and Seeds: Medieval Literature and its Afterlife. Essays in Honor of John Freccero, eds. Dana
E. Stewart and Alison Cornish (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2000), pp. 1-15.
“Neoplatonismo e politica nell’Orfeo di Poliziano,” Italian Quarterly, Year XXXVII, Nos. 143-146 (Winter-Fall
2000). Special Issue in Honor of Vittore Branca, pp. 151-64.
“Vico’s ‘Istoria della Poesia’, ” The Craft and the Fury. Essays in Memory of Glauco Cambon, ed. Joseph Francese
(West Lafayette, IN: Bordighera Press, 2000), pp. 157-60.
“Saint Bonaventure and Dante,” Prism, Issue 4, Spring 2000, pp. 4-6.
“Le Lagrime della Beata Vergine di Torquato Tasso,” Maria Vergine nella Letteratura Italiana, ed. Florinda M.
Iannace (Stony Brook, NY: Forum Italicum Publishing, 2000), pp. 139-42.
“Italian American Spirituality: Linking the Historical Tradition to the Future,” in Mosaico , Issue 1 (Fall 2000),
pp.5-8.
“Jewish Life in Italy,” in Mosaico, Issue 1 (Fall 2000), pp. 13-17.
“Reflections on the Criticism of the Decameron,” Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio’s Decameron, ed. James H.
McGregor (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2000), pp.70-78.
“Boccaccio: The Mythographer of the City,” in Interpretation and Allegory. Antiquity to the Modern World, ed.
With Introductory essay by Jon Whitman (Leiden: Brill, 2000), pp. 349-64.
Preface to Sheryl Lynn Postman,Crossing the Acheron: A Study of Nine Novels by Giose Rimanelli (Brooklyn,
N.Y.: Legas, 2000), pp. 9-11
“Varrone, sant’Agostino e Vico,” in Il mondo di Vico/Vico nel mondo, a cura di Franco Ratto (Perugia: Guerra
edizioni, 2001), pp. 157-163.
“Science and Theology: Galileo and Robert Bellarmine,” Prism, Issue 6 (Winter 2001), pp. 16-19.
“L’esilio da Firenze: Il De Vulgari Eloquentia e il cerchio della frode,” in Dante da Firenze all’Aldila`. Atti del terzo
Seminario dantesco internazionale (Firenze, 9-11 giugno 2000), ed. M. Picone (Firenze: Cesati editore, 2001), pp.
233-47.
“Reflections on Dante Studies in America,” Dante Studies, vol. CXVIII (2000), Dante Society of America 2002, pp.
323-330.
“Two Jewish Writers in Twentieth Century Italy: Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani,” Mosaico, 2 (Fall 2001), pp. 812.
“Science and Theology: Galileo and Robert Bellarmine,” Mosaico, 2 (Fall, 2001), pp. 13-18.
“The Theology of Communication,” Introduction to Word, Image, Number: Communication in the Middle Ages”,
eds. John J. Contreni and Santa Casciani (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2002), pp. 13-23.
“La ciencia nueva. Etnografia del Nuevo mundo y escolastica,” Cuadernos sobre Vico, N. 13-14 (2001-2002), pp.
287-294.
“Introduzione” to Natalino Sapegno, Introduzione alla Divina Commedia. Le lezioni di Cambridge e di Yale
(Turin: Nino Aragno editore, 2002), pp.11-17.
“Ancient Rome and Its Legacy in the Italian Renaissance,” Mosaico , 3 (Winter 2003), pp.13-18.
“Science and Theology: Galileo and Bellarmine” in Mystics , Visions, and Miracles. A St. Michael’s College
Symposium (2-3 March, 2001), eds. Joseph Goering et. al. (Ottawa: Legas, 2002), pp. 111-25.
“The Heaven of the Sun: Dante between Aquinas and Bonaventure” in Dante for the New Millennium”, eds. T.
Barolini and W. Storey (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), pp. 152- 68.
“Theology of History and the Perspective of Art (Purgatorio X-XII)” in Image Makers and Image Breakers,
Proceedings of St. Michael’s College Symposium (1-2 March 2002). Ed. Jennifer A. Harris (Ottawa-New York:
Legas, 2003) pp. 71-82.
“The Question of Perspective in Machiavelli’s Prince”, Mosaico, 4 (Spring 2004), pp. 25-35.
“Paradiso en el Paradiso,” in Cuba: Un siglo de literatura (1902-2002), eds. Anke Birkenmaier y Roberto Gonzalez
Echevarria (Madrid: Editorial Colibri, 2004), pp.147-63.
“Politics and Art: Della Pittura and Il Principe,” in Rinascimento, eds. Michele Ciliberto and Cesare Vasoli. Istituto
Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, Seconda Serie, vol, XLIII (Florence: Olschki, 2005), pp. 15-29.
“Preface” to Maria C. Passaro, Representation of Women in Classical, Medieval, and renaissance Texts (Lewiston:
The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005), pp. IX-XI.
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“Spettacolo e Geometria della Giustizia (Paradiso XVIII-XX): L’Europa e l’Universalita` di Roma,” in Dante e
l’Europa. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi (Ravenna: 29 novembre, 2003), (Ravenna: Centro dantesco,
2005), pp. 59-77.
“Inferno: The Language of Fraud in Lower Hell,” in Patterns in Dante: Nine Literary Essays, eds. Cormac O
Cuilleanain and Jennifer Petrie (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005), pp. 169-87.
“Nel cielo del Sole: Dante tra San Bonaventura e San Tommaso,” in Tempo ed eterno nelle forme letterarie della
modernita`. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Universita` Cattolica (Milano, 5-7 settembre 2000), ed.
Gianni Oliva, Studi medievali e moderni 2/2001, pp. 381-400.
“Foreword” to Selected Writings of Girolamo Savonarola: Religion and Politics 1490-1498, eds. Anne Borelli, M.
Pastore Passaro, and Donald Beebe (New Haven, Ct.: Yale Univ. Press, 2006), xi- xii.
“Humanism and the Medieval Encyclopedic Tradition,” in Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism, ed. Angelo
Mazzocco (Amsterdam and New York: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006), pp. 113-124.
“Petrarca e la Collatio Laureationis: Il Discorso di Roma” in Petrarca y El Petrarquismo en Europa y America,
Actas del Congreso (Mexico, 16-23 de noviembre de 2004), ed. Mariapia Lamberti (Mexico, DE.F. Facultad de
Filosofia y Letras, UNAM, 2006), pp. 71-82.
“Modern and Ancient Italy in Don Quixote,” in Poetica: Zeitschrift Fur Sprache-Und Literaturwissenschaft, vol. 38,
2006 (Heft 1-2), pp. 91-106.
“Universal History: Vico’s New Science between Antiquarians and Ethnographers,” Reason and Its Others: Italy,
Spain, and the New World”, eds. David R. Castillo and Massimo Lollini (Nashville: Vanderbild University Press,
2006), pp. 316-30.
“Prefazione” to Susan Stewart, Columbarium e altre poesie, trad. A cura di Maria Cristina Biggio (Milan: Ed. Ares,
2006), pp. 5-13.
“Petrarca e il Discorso di Roma,” in Petrarca: Canoni, esemplarita`, ed. Valeria Finucci (Rome: Bulzoni, 2006), pp.
259-72.
“Dante and His Works,” in Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, ed. Gaetana Marrone (New York: Routledge,
2007), Vol. I, pp. 547-566.
“Petrarch and His Works,” in Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, ed. Gaetana Marrone (New York: Routledge,
2007), vol. II, pp. 1402-1419.
“ Vico and His Works,” in Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, ed. Gaetana Marrone (New York: Routledge,
2007), vol. II, pp. 1982-1988.
“Dante’s Franciscanism” in Dante and the Franciscans, ed. Santa Casciani (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2006)
pp. 171-98.
“Le virtu` e la prospettiva dell’arte (Purgatorio X-XII) in Dialoghi con Dante: riscritture e ricodificazioni della
‘Commedia’, eds. Erminia Ardissino & Sabrina Stroppa Tomasi (Roma: Edizioni di Soria e Letteratura, 2007),
pp.3-16.
“Foreword” to Other Renaissances: A New Approach to World Literature, eds. Brenda Deen Schildgen, Gang
Zhou, and Sander L. Gilman (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. xiii-xvii.
“Dante: Healing the Wounded Will,” in Weakness of Will from Plato to the Present, ed. Tobias Hoffmann. Studies
in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy. Volume 49 (Washington, DC.: The Catholic University of America,
2008), pp. 138-58.
“The Road to Freedom,” The Humanities Review , vol. 6, issue 2, Spring 2008, pp. 187-201.
“Dante’s Poetics of Births and Foundations,” in Dante: A Critical Reappraisal, ed. Unn Falkeid (Oslo: Academic
Press, 2008), pp. 7-26.
“Cosmology and the Kiss of Creation (Paradiso 27-29)”, Dante Studies. Vol. CXXIII (2005), pp. 1-21.
“Bruno’s Radical Critique of Humanism” in Umanesimo, Postumanesimo e Neoumanesimo, Annali d’italianistica,
26 (2008), pp. 171-86.
“Letteratura e verita`, la lezione di Primo Levi,” in Vita e pensiero vol. 3 (2008), pp. 116-122.
“Metafisica della creazione,” in L’idea e l’immagine dell’Universo nell’Opera di Dante Atti del Convegno
internazionale di studi: Ravenna 12 novembre 2005 (Ravenna” centro Danteco dei Frati Minori Conventuali:
2008), pp.61-82.
“Europe and Rome: Spectacle and Geometry of Justice, Paradiso XVIII-XX” in Through a Classical Eye:
transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop
Wetherbee, eds. Andrew Galloway and R. F. Yeager (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), pp.125-144.
“Framing Tales,” in What’s the Word, Broadcast Recording for NPR Content Depot and MLA Radio Committee
(April 16, 2009).
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“Petrarch’s Dialogue with Dante” in Petrarch and Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition, eds. Zygmunt G.
Baranski and Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. (Notre Dame, Indiana: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2009) pp.177-194.
“Petrarch’s Epistolary Epic: letters on Familiar Matters:Rerum Familiarum Libri,” in Petrarchy: A Critical Guide to
the Complete Works, eds. Victoria Kirkham and Armando Maggi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009),
pp.309-319.
“I piaceri di Francesca,” in Un Bacio, un Mito… Atti del convegno. Giornate internazionali di studio dedicate a
Francesca da Rimini, Rimini, 4-luglio, 2008 (Rimini: Editrice Romagna Arte e Storia sas, 2009), pp.99-108.
“Prefazione” to Erminia Ardissino, Tempo liturgico e tempo storico nella “Commedia” di Dante, (Citta` del
Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2009), pp.V-VII.
“Of Poets and Thinkers: A Conversation on Philosophy, Literature and the Rebuilding of the World,” in European
Legacy 14 (5), 2009, pp. 519-534.
“Conclusioni” to La Poesia della natura nellaDivina Commedia. Atti del Convegno internazionale di Studi. Ravenna,
10 novembre 2007. A cura di Giuseppe Ledda (Ravenna centro Dantesco dei Frati Minori Conventuali, 2009), pp.
157-65.
“Fondazioni e nascite,” in Etica e Teologia nellaCommedia di Dante, a cura di Erminia Ardissino (Roma Edizioni
di Storia e letteratura, 2009), pp. 47-64.
“Despre ganditori si poeti: Un dialog cu privire la filosofie, literature si recladirea lumii” Secolul 21, 7 teme pp.1839, 2010.
“Scienza e Teologia: Galileo e Bellarmino,” in Studi di letteratura italiana in onore di Claudio Scarpati, a cura di
Eraldo Bellini, Maria Teresa Girardi, Uberto Motta (Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2010), pp.357-371.
“Italian Renaissance Epic,” Cambridge Companion to the Epic, ed. Catherine Bates (Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
2010), pp.93-118.
“Literature and Religion:The Error of Narcissus,” Religion and Literature (Summer 2009), vol. 41.2 (appeared in
2010), pp. 29-35.
“Dante’s Poetics of Births and Foundations,” rep. in Dante Studies, CXXVII, 2009, pp.129-46.
“Contemplazione e poesia: canti XXI-XII,” in Esperimenti danteschi: Paradiso 2010 (Genova-Milan: Marietti,
2010), pp. 201-212.
Spanish Translation :“Sobre Poetas y Pensadores: Una conversacion sobre filosofis, letteratura, y la reconstruction
del mundo,” Intuicion. Revista de Filosofia, 2 (1) (2011).
“Leopardi and the Poetics of Translation.” The Yale Review ,No. 2 (2011). Special issue for 100th Anniversary, pp.
172-182.
Bulgarian Translation of “Of Poets and Thinkers: A Conversation on Philosophy, Literature, and the rebuilding of
the World (By Costica Bradatan, Simon Critchely, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Alexander Nehams) in Philosophical
Alternatives (2/2011), vol. XX, pp. 45-60.
“The Emergence of Modernity and the New World,”The Yearbook of Comparative Literature, vol. 55 (2009)
<appeared in 2011>, pp. 146-162.
“Introduction: The Circumspection of Poets: Longfellow and Dante” in Dante Studies, vol. CXXVIII (2010) (pub.
2011)), pp. 1- 9.
“Musica e storia nel Paradiso 15-17,” in Critica del testo, XIV/ 2, 2011 (Dante, oggi, 2), eds. Roberto Antonelli,
Annalisa Landolfi, Arianna Punzi (Rome: Viella, 2011), pp. 333-348.
Petrarch’s epistolary epic: Letters on Familiar Matters” rep. in Reception and the Classics: An interdisciplinary
Approach to the Classical Tradition, eds. W. Brockliss, P. Chandhuri, , A. Haimson,Lushka, and K. Wasdin
(Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012), pp. 97-107.
“The Book of Questions: Prayer and Poetry,” Dante Studies CXXIX (2011) (appeared in 2012), pp.25-46.
“Encyclopedia and Enigma: The Cinema of Roberto Rossellini,” in Global Perspectives on Italian Literature,
Cinema, and Culture, ed. Tonia Caterina Riviello (Salerno: EdiSud, 2012), pp. 153-169.
“Introduzione. Il mondo creato del Tasso: Potenza delle immagini” in Visibile Teologia: Il libro sacro figurato in
Italia tra Cinquecento e Seicento, eds. Arminia Aridissno and elisabetta Selmi, Intrd. Giuseppe Mazzotta (Rome:
Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2012), xiii-xxvi.
“The Emergency of Modernity and the New World,” in New Worlds and the Italian Renaissance: Contributions to
the History of European Intellectual Culture, eds. A. Moudarres and Christiana Purdy Moudarres (Leiden and
Boston: Brill, 2012), pp. 9-23.
Portuguese Translation of “Poets and Thinkers. A Conversation on Philosophy, Literature, and the Rebuiding of the
World”,--“Sobre Poetas e Pensadores:uma conversa sobre Filosofia, Literatura e a Reconstruction do mundo,” in
Griot: Revista de Filosofia,” Trans. Djeissom Silva Ribeiro (Dec. 2012), pp.
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“Viaggi in Utopia: Campanella, Bacone e la Tempesta,” in Francisco L. Lisi, ed. Utopia, Ancient and Modern:
Contributions to the History of a Political Dream. Collegium Politcum, vol. 6 (Sankt Augustiin, 2012), pp.. 161-179.
“Frontiers of Thought Out of the Margins,” The European Legacy, vol. 17, issue 6 (2012), pp. 745-754.
“Post-Modernism Si Identitati Culturale: Conflicte Si Coexistenta” trans. Into Rumanian by Gabriela Daianu,
inVerso:Lunar Cultural, 106 (may 20120, PP. 10-11.
“Scholarly Pursuits” interview to Jenna Sunkenberg in St. Michael’s vol. 51, no. 2, Fall 2012 , pp.12-13
“Style as Polemics,” Style in Theory: Between Literature and Philosophy, eds. Ivan callus, James Corby, and Gloris
Lauri-Lucente (London: Bloomsbury, 2013), pp.19-29.