| Professor Eisner will be at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton for the Spring semester. Education:
- PhD Columbia University, 2005
- BA Columbia University, 1999
Research Interests:
Professor Eisner has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Italian from Columbia University. He is currently working on book two projects. The first, tentatively entitled "Boccaccio's Other Loves: Codifying Dante, Petrarch, and Cavalcanti in the Chigi Codex," analyzes Boccaccio as literary historian of vernacular poetry in what is now the Vatican's Chigi L V 176. His next book project, "Rematerializing Literary History: The Afterlives of Dante’s ‘Vita Nuova’" continues to integrate philological materials into literary criticism, but takes a diachronic rather than synchronic approach in its analysis of the material tradition of Dante's first book, from its earliest manuscripts to the most recent editions and adaptations. He is also the author of several published and forthcoming articles on Petrarch and Boccaccio.
His other research interests include medieval lyric poetry, the European novella tradition, and material philology/textual theory/book history. Recent Publications
- M. Eisner and M. Schachter. "Libido Sciendi: Apuleius, Boccaccio and the History of Sexuality." PMLA (Accepted, March, 2008). [abs]
- Martin Eisner. "Petrarch Reading Boccaccio: Revisiting the Genesis of the Triumphi." Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation Ed. Teodolinda Barolini and H. Wayne Storey. Brill, 2007.
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