Elsa Filosa
Title: Senior Lecturer in Italian
Office: Furman 220
Office Phone: 343-4291
Email: elsa.filosa@vanderbilt.edu
Education:
• Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005
• Laurea, Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy), 2000
Research interests:
• The three crowns, particularly Giovanni Boccaccio
• Intertextuality between Boccaccio’s Works and Classical Literature
• Friendship and Reciprocal Influences between Petrarch and Boccaccio
• Italian Novella from Origin to Renaissance
• Medieval Representation of Women
• Adaptation of Medieval and Renaissance Texts on the Screen
Honors, Fellowships, and Awards:
- Secretary of the American Boccaccio Association (2008-2011)
- Dana B. Drake Teaching Award, 2004. Awarded by Department of Romance Languages and Literatures of the UNC at Chapel Hill in recognition of excellence in undergraduate teaching.
- Graduate Dissertation Completion Reserach Fellowship, 2004-2005. Awarded by the Graduate School of the UNC at Chapel Hill. This highly competitive, merit-based award provides one-year total financial support with no teaching requirments.
Representative publications:
• “Modalità di contatto tra Decameron e Corbaccio: Giovenale nella novella di Monna Sismonda (Dec. VII 8).” Modern Language Notes 122.1 (2007): 123-32.
• “Boccaccio tra storia e invenzione: Dal De fide uxorum erga viros di Valerio Massimo al De mulieribus claris.” Romance Quarterly 54.3 (2007): 219-30.
• “Intertestualità tra Decameron e De mulieribus claris: La tragica storia di Tisbe e Piramo.” Heliotropia 3.1-2 (2005-06).
• “Secretum e Corbaccio: Possibili interferenze?” Atti del Convegno ‘Petrarca e la Lombardia.’ Milano, 22-23 Maggio 2003. Ed. Giuseppe Frasso, Giuseppe Velli and Maurizio Vitale. Milano: Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, 2005. 211-19.
• “Il mondo alla rovescia nella ‘valle delle donne’: eros muliebre e trasgressione sociale nel Decameron.” La Fusta 13 (2004-05): 9-18.
• “Dante, Alberto Magno e le pietre preziose: una nota su ambra e alabastro.” Dante Studies 122 (2004): 173-80.
• “Petrarca, Boccaccio e le mulieres clarae: dalla Familiare XXI 8 al De mulieribus claris.” Annali d’Italianistica 22 (2004): 381-95.
• “Ancora su Seneca (e Giovenale) nel Decameron.” Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana 175 (1998): 210-219.
• “The Tale of King Agilulf and his Groom (Dec. III.2).” The Decameron: Third Day in Perspective. Lectura Boccaccii. Ed.
Pier Massimo Forni and Francesco Ciabattoni. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2007. Forthcoming.
Curriculum Vitae
Interview with Vanderbilt Office of International Services
Article on Italy for OIS
Office: Furman 220
Office Phone: 343-4291
Email: elsa.filosa@vanderbilt.edu
Education:
• Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005
• Laurea, Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy), 2000
Research interests:
• The three crowns, particularly Giovanni Boccaccio
• Intertextuality between Boccaccio’s Works and Classical Literature
• Friendship and Reciprocal Influences between Petrarch and Boccaccio
• Italian Novella from Origin to Renaissance
• Medieval Representation of Women
• Adaptation of Medieval and Renaissance Texts on the Screen
Honors, Fellowships, and Awards:
- Secretary of the American Boccaccio Association (2008-2011)
- Dana B. Drake Teaching Award, 2004. Awarded by Department of Romance Languages and Literatures of the UNC at Chapel Hill in recognition of excellence in undergraduate teaching.
- Graduate Dissertation Completion Reserach Fellowship, 2004-2005. Awarded by the Graduate School of the UNC at Chapel Hill. This highly competitive, merit-based award provides one-year total financial support with no teaching requirments.
Representative publications:
• “Modalità di contatto tra Decameron e Corbaccio: Giovenale nella novella di Monna Sismonda (Dec. VII 8).” Modern Language Notes 122.1 (2007): 123-32.
• “Boccaccio tra storia e invenzione: Dal De fide uxorum erga viros di Valerio Massimo al De mulieribus claris.” Romance Quarterly 54.3 (2007): 219-30.
• “Intertestualità tra Decameron e De mulieribus claris: La tragica storia di Tisbe e Piramo.” Heliotropia 3.1-2 (2005-06).
• “Secretum e Corbaccio: Possibili interferenze?” Atti del Convegno ‘Petrarca e la Lombardia.’ Milano, 22-23 Maggio 2003. Ed. Giuseppe Frasso, Giuseppe Velli and Maurizio Vitale. Milano: Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, 2005. 211-19.
• “Il mondo alla rovescia nella ‘valle delle donne’: eros muliebre e trasgressione sociale nel Decameron.” La Fusta 13 (2004-05): 9-18.
• “Dante, Alberto Magno e le pietre preziose: una nota su ambra e alabastro.” Dante Studies 122 (2004): 173-80.
• “Petrarca, Boccaccio e le mulieres clarae: dalla Familiare XXI 8 al De mulieribus claris.” Annali d’Italianistica 22 (2004): 381-95.
• “Ancora su Seneca (e Giovenale) nel Decameron.” Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana 175 (1998): 210-219.
• “The Tale of King Agilulf and his Groom (Dec. III.2).” The Decameron: Third Day in Perspective. Lectura Boccaccii. Ed.
Pier Massimo Forni and Francesco Ciabattoni. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2007. Forthcoming.
Curriculum Vitae
Interview with Vanderbilt Office of International Services
Article on Italy for OIS