Filippo Naitana

Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian

Specialization: Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Mediterranean Studies

Filippo Naitana holds a laurea in history from the Università di Firenze. He completed a Ph.D. in Italian literature from Yale University in 2008. Naitana’s teaching interests include Dante and the classical world, Renaissance literature of discovery and Humanism in the Mediterranean context.

His work has been published in journals such as Quaderni medievali and Archivio storico italiano.  Naitana’s current research focuses on the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in Medieval literature, and he is working on a manuscript entitled “Dante and the Question of Happiness”.

At Mount Holyoke, Naitana teaches both language and introductory literature courses, as well as interdisciplinary seminars such as Eros, Beauty and the Pursuit of Happiness.