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Teaching (Fall 2012):
| PhD | Columbia University | 2005 |
| BA | Columbia University | 1999 |
Current projects: philology, textual theory, editorial theory, Dante, Vita nuova, canzoniere, Bocccaccio
Professor Eisner has a B.A. in Italian (1999) and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (2005) from Columbia University. His research and teaching focus on medieval Italian literature, particularly the works of Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch. He is in the process of completing his first book, tentatively entitled “The Inventive Scribe: Boccaccio and the Making of Italian Literature,” which analyzes Boccaccio’s transcriptions of the vernacular works of Dante, Petrarch, and Cavalcanti 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 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. His courses on Dante and Boccaccio are taught in English, but with discussion sections for students who can read the text in Italian as well. In the Spring 2010, he will teach a seminar for undergraduates and graduate students on The Materiality of Literature (RS150S/200S). For more further details, please see his webpage.