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Claudia Chierichini
Assistant Professor of Italian
Specialization
Italian Literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Dante Alighieri; Theatre of the XVIth Century Claudia Chierichini received her degrees in Italian and Latin literature from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, where she graduated cum laude with a dissertation on Dante’s Comedy and the satires of Horace, Persius and Juvenal; and in Italian literature from Yale University, where she graduated with distinction with a dissertation on Sienese playwrights of the XVIth century.
Chierichini teaches and writes on medieval and early modern Italian literature. At Mount Holyoke she teaches both language and literature courses, including “Dante and the Middle Ages”, “The World at Play: Boccaccio’s Decameron”, “Mirrors for Reality: Renaissance Italian Theatre”. In the Spring of 2006 she cotaught “Illustrious and Abandoned Women” with Professor Carolyn Collette (English Department), a course focusing on the representation of women in the works of Boccaccio, Christine de Pisan and Chaucer. She is the author of articles on Dante Alighieri, Luca Contile, Mario Guarnacci, Giovanni Papini, and of the critical edition of Guarnacci’s tragedy Muzio Scevola. She contributed entries to the forthcoming Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. She is currently working on an introduced and annotated edition of the plays produced in Siena by the “Congrega dei Rozzi” during the XVIth century.
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