My name is Laura Ingallinella, and I am an Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto, with a cross-appointment in the Renaissance Studies Program at Victoria College. My research focuses on the intersection of identity formation and literary expression in premodern Italy (1300-1600). My work has been published in I Tatti Studies in the Renaissance, Forum Italicum, Bibliotheca Dantesca, Medioevo Romanzo, Revue Mabillon, and ACMRS’s The Sundial. I teach about globalities and identity politics—gender, race, religion, and class—in premodern literature.

I am now completing two monographs, “The Fraudulent Muse: Gender and Literary Forgery in Renaissance Italy” and “Nations of the Book: Trade, Travel, and Transcultural Literacy in the Early Renaissance (1350–1500).” With Robert J. Clines of Western Carolina University, I am editing an interdisciplinary collection of essays on race in premodern Italy.

After earning a B.A. (laurea triennale) and M.A. (laurea magistrale) in philology and modern languages and literature at the University of Catania, I earned my Ph.D. in Italian Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, I was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Wellesley College, cross-appointed between the department of Italian Studies and the Medieval and Renaissance Program, where I taught—among other courses—Dante in English translation. I held a predoctoral appointment in which I served as Associate Editor for Speculum, the journal of medieval studies published by the Medieval Academy of America.

I am currently a member of the Centre for the Renaissance and Reformation Studies (CRRS) (2022-) and a Fellow of Victoria University (2022-) at the University of Toronto. I also work on the Nominating Committee of the Dante Society of America (2021-) and am a member of the Cosmopolitan Collective.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

medieval and early modern Italian and French literature; manuscript studies; drama and theater studies; gender and sexuality; cross-regional exchanges; premodern critical race studies (PCRS)

CONTACT

Email: laura.ingallinella@utoronto.ca
Twitter: @lauraingalli
Mastodon: @lauraingalli@hcommons.social