JoAnn DellaNeva
Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Fellow, the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning
Fellow, the Nanovic Institute
Degrees
B.A., Bryn Mawr College; M.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., Princeton University
Research Profile
DellaNeva specializes in Renaissance Literature, with a particular interest in Renaissance love poetry, Franco-Italian literary relations in the Renaissance, women writers of the Renaissance, literary imitation, and European Petrarchism. She is a two-time winner of the NEH Fellowship for College Teachers and received the 2004 Sixteenth-Century Studies and Conference Literature Prize. She also received a Kaneb Award for Excellence in Undergraduate teaching and was named a Faculty Fellow of the Kaneb Center in 2002. She has authored a book on the French poet Maurice Sceve (Song and Counter-Song: Sceve's Delie and Petrarch's Rime), and published articles on Renaissance poets and imitation theory in several journals. Her edition of Neo-Latin treatises on imitation, Ciceronian Controversies, was published in 2007 by Harvard University Press in its I Tatti series. She has also recently completed a long-term project on the imitation of minor Italian poets in the poetry of the Pleiade.
Contact Information
114
Decio Faculty Hall
631-6131
DellaNeva.1@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~romlang/faculty/dellaneva.html
