Filippo Naitana

Filippo Naitana is Professor of Modern Languages and Director of the Italian program in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. He earned a B.A. in history from the University of Florence, Italy and a Ph.D. in Italian literature from Yale University. His research on Dante and the classical tradition, and the Renaissance in a Mediterranean context has been published in journals such as Dante Studies, Archivio storico italiano, Quaderni medievali, and Italian Poetry Review. He is author of the poetry collection Viceversa (2021). His poems and literary translations have appeared in Journal of Medical Humanities, Nuovi Argomenti, The Massachusetts Review, Journal of Italian Translation, Italian Poetry Review, and La Repubblica, as well as the multilingual volumes Writers Between Worlds (2021) and Selected International Poetry and Prose by Chinese and Foreign Pen (2021).