Assistant Professor of Italian Studies and Renaissance at the University of Toronto, Canada.
I work on late medieval and Renaissance Italy. My primary interests lie in transregional processes of identity-making via literacy, manuscripts, and translation. Right now, I am working on a book called "Nations of the Book: Transcultural Textualities in Early Renaissance Italy." More recently, I have also started working on intersectional formations of gender and race in Renaissance Italian theater.
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Looking for a blueprint for incorporating our trainings, resources, and tools into your real classroom environment? Dr. Laura Ingallinella details her Wikipedia assignment in the Journal of Dante Studies! Check out our summary.
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2022/12/27/what-a-wikipedia-assignment-looks-like-day-to-day/
Horrendous story of how a scholar’s work was lifted from his blog and published by another scholar as her own. For context, the blogger, Peter Kidd, is highly respected and has made numerous contributions to manuscropt studies via his blog, which is his main publication platform. Among the worrying elements of this story: that blogs are not real publications, so contents can be used without attribution. It happens more often.
https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html
A rare survival--a 1691 Italian board game with a theme of love and marriage, mounted on contemporary decorated cardboard. Roll an 11 and your spendthrift lout of a husband sells all the furniture to pay his debts.
A curiosity for meat-loving aficionados of Italian literature: Antonio Frizzi (Ferrara, 1736-1800) wrote "La Salameide," a magniloquent 2,000-line poem in praise of salami, sausages, and other pork-derived cold-cuts.
My latest peer-reviewed essay is out in the latest issue of Bibliotheca Dantesca:
In "Foul Tales, Public Knowledge: Bringing Dante's Divine Comedy to Wikipedia," I discuss a pedagogical experiment I've nicknamed WikiDante: teaching students how to be activists and digital public historians by changing entries related to Dante on #Wikipedia.
The essay (open-access) is available here: https://repository.upenn.edu/bibdant/vol5/iss1/9/
I really see this essay as an invitation to other instructors in premodern studies to run similar projects; I'm really grateful to other medievalists who set examples that inspired WikiDante!
#medieval #litstudies #pedagogy #digitalhumanities @medievodons @litstudies
This contribution discusses WikiDante, a set of best practices for the implementation of content related to the Divine Comedy on Wikipedia, chiefly designed for (yet not limited to) the undergraduate classroom. Developed as a digital project involving undergraduate students in partnership with Wiki Education, WikiDante consisted of two iterations, the first of which created or revised entries on the women from Dante’s recent history mentioned in the poem. For two decades, scholars have treated Wikipedia as the proverbial elephant in the room—shunned, ignored, or shamefully used only in lack of more anointed tools. This essay explores the benefits of using Wikipedia for digital scholarly activism in Dante Studies, outlining the challenges and educational outcomes of organizing editing campaigns on Wikipedia focusing on Dante and his work. After discussing the project’s components, the essay indicates future venues for the applicability of this framework by scholars and educators interested in digital public scholarship and knowledge equity.
Wiki Education
Lisa Fagin Davis
Erik Kwakkel
John Overholt