Dante in America @ Notre Dame
In the Spring and Fall Semesters of 2021, there will be a series of lectures on the topic of Dante in America. In the Spring, there will also be a special edition of the annual Ravarino lecture. The Fall events will include an exhibit on the Dante holdings in Rare Books and Special Collections in Hesburgh Libraries. Click the links below for more details on each session of lectures and to find out how to register.
Spring 2021
January 29, Session I
David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania), "'But Dante's Hell is Heaven': American Dantes"
Laura Dassow Walls (University of Notre Dame), "'A Star Unlike': Dante and the American Transcendentalists"
February 19, Session II
Kristina Olson (George Mason University), "In Good Faith: Translations and Iconographies of Dante from Longfellow and Doré to Birk and Sanders"
Kathleen Boyle (University of Notre Dame), "'All the Verities Mundane and Spiritual': Dantean Intertextuality in Pietro di Donato's Christ in Concrete"
March 19, Session III
Joshua Matthews (Dordt University), "Why America's Poets Turned to Dante During the Civil War"
Dennis Looney (University of Pittsburgh), "Dante and Social Justice"
April 9, Ravarino Lecture in Italian Studies
Peter S. Hawkins (Yale University), "'Nel mezzo del cammin': Finding a 'Spiritual' Dante in American Religious Culture"
Fall 2021
(titles to be announced in Summer 2021)
September 2, Session IV
Stephen Fredman (University of Notre Dame)
Henry Weinfield (University of Notre Dame)
October 7, Session V
Joseph Rosenberg (University of Notre Dame)
Kathleen Verduin (Hope College)
November 11, Session VI
Christian Dupont (Boston College)
Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College)