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Susanna Barsella is Professor of Italian in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Fordham University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Her academic work bridges medieval literature, early humanism, and twentieth-century Italian studies with a focus on Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarca.
Her research spans two major domains:
- Medieval & Renaissance Studies: Specializing in Dante's cosmology (evident in her 2010 monograph In the Light of the Angels), angelology, and the intersection of science/theology in Divina Commedia, with recent collaborative work on Dante's geometric paradises.
- Modern Italian Literature: Exploring Pirandello, Gadda, and twentieth-century poetry, while examining continuities between medieval thought and contemporary culture.
Current scholarly initiatives include co-organizing the Cultures of Exchange conference for Fordham's Center of Medieval Studies and the American Boccaccio Association Paleography Seminar. Her digital humanities projects feature transcriptions of Leon Battista Alberti’s Deiphira and Goro Dati’s Sfera, demonstrating commitment to manuscript accessibility.
Teaching encompasses courses from Dante and His Age to Avanguardia and War: Arts and Literature in XXth-Century Italy, with interdisciplinary offerings like Building the Ideal City examining economic ethics in utopian thought.
