Alberto Gelmi
Alberto holds an M.A. in Romance and Italian Philology from the University of Milan and a PhD in Comparative Literature from The Graduate Center, CUNY. His research focuses on Jewish culture in Italy and the work and reception of Dante and Boccaccio. His work has been published on Dante Studies, Bibliotheca Dantesca, Journal of Italian Translation. He is senior editor at Heliotropia, the journal of American Boccaccio Association and a member of the International Boccaccio Edition team. With Akash Kumar and Alejandro Cuadrado, he co-edited Old Texts, New Questions. Critical Approaches to Medieval Italian Literature (MLN, 2026) With Daniela D’Eugenio Alberto co-edited Rappresentare per Includere: metodi, strumenti e testi per un italiano plurale (Franco Cesati, 2023); with Daniela D’Eugenio e Dario Marcucci he co-edited Italia, Italie. Studi in onore di Hermann W. Haller (Mimesis, 2021).
Departments and Programs
Courses
ITAL 105 Elementary Italian
ITAL 217 Advanced Composition and Oral Expression
ITAL 237 The Hell with Dante! A Journey to Inferno
Grants, Fellowships, Honors, Awards
Alberto Gelmi, Assistant Professor of Italian, co-edited a recently published volume entitled Rappresentare per includere. Metodi, strumenti e testi per un italiano plurale.
Alberto Gelmi’s co-edited volume is geared toward inclusion and offers methodological tools and concrete examples for an updated teaching of Italian. The publication was made possible by the generous support of Vassar’s Research Committee and the University of Arkansas.
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