Faculty
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Massimo Ciavolella. Ph.D.
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Chair.
MASSIMO
CIAVOLELLA
studied at the Universities of Bologna, Rome,
and British Columbia,
where he received his Ph.D. in classical, medieval and Renaissance studies.
He taught for many years at Carleton
University (Ottawa)
and at the University of Toronto before coming to his present positions as
Professor and Chair, Department of Italian, and Professor of Comparative
Literature and the University of California, Los
Angeles. He has served on departmental and
university-wide P&T committees, has directed and served on many
advanced thesis committees, and has taught a wide range of courses,
including ones on Italian Renaissance and “the Classical
Tradition.” Over the years, he has won academic
fellowships and grants, has organized and read papers at a great number of
international conferences, and served on the board of several academic
books, journals and series. He has read papers at many academic
conferences, and has written widely on his areas of specialization.
His editorial positions include co-editing the “Carleton Renaissance
Plays in Translation” series, the series “Major Italian
Authors” published at the University
of Toronto Press, as
well as the “Italian Series” for the same Press. He was the
co-founder and co-editor (1970-1991) of Quaderni d'italianistica
(the official journal of the Canadian Society for Italian Studies), and he
is currently co-editor with Professor Luigi Ballerini of the University of
Toronto Press’ “Lorenzo Da Ponte
Italian Library,” a collection that will include
100 Italian major texts in English translation. Author of a broad
stream of articles, reviews, encyclopaedia and dictionary entries, etc., he
has also written and co-edited several books, including La
malattia d'amore dall'antichitą al Medioevo (Rome: Bulzoni, 1976); Saturn from Antiquity to the
Renaissance (Ottawa:
Dovehouse, 1992); Eros and Anteros: Medicine and the Literary Traditions
of Love in the Renaissance (Ottawa: Dovehouse, 1993); Scrittori,
tendenze letterarie e conflitto delle poetiche in Italia (1960-1990). (Ravenna: Longo, 1993); Italian
Studies in North America (Ottawa, Dovehouse, 1994); La lotta con Proteo. 2 volumes (Florence: Cadmo, 2001); Ariosto Today.
Contemporary Perspectives (TorontoUniversity Press,
2003); and Culture and Authority in the Baroque (Toronto University
Press, 2005).
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