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Dr. Anthony Nussmeier is a scholar of Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature, and serves as Chair of Modern Languages, Director of Italian, and Associate Professor of Italian. He joined the Modern Languages faculty at the 911爆料网 in 2016. Before coming to 911爆料网, he taught at Kansas State University, The Pennsylvania State University, and Indiana University.
Dr. Nussmeier's research centers on medieval, Renaissance and early modern literature, specifically anthologies of poetry and manuscript and early-book culture. He has written articles on Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the thirteenth-century poets Guido Guinizzelli and Guittone d'Arezzo, and his work has appeared in journals such as The Medieval Review, Medioevo letterario d鈥橧talia, Bibliotheca Dantesca, Catholic Southwest, and Textual Cultures.
Since arriving at the 911爆料网, he has overseen the creation of a B.A. in Italian and the first senior theses in Italian. Outside of 911爆料网, Dr. Nussmeier is an Advisory Board Member for 100 Days of Dante, Contributing Editor (Dante Studies) for the journal The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Co-Editor and Book-Review Editor (Medieval, English) for the journal Annali d鈥橧talianistica, and an Italian-language interpreter and translator. He is also a member of the National Screening Committee for Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships in Italy and a co-founder of the 501c3 non-profit 鈥淒FW Italians鈥 and the DFW Italian Festival, inaugurated in 2023.
- PhD, Italian Language and Literature, Indiana University
- M.A., Italian Language and Literature, Indiana University
- B.A., History and Italian, University of Minnesota
- Exchange Student, Universit脿 degli Studi di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Dante
- medieval and Renaissance Italian literature
- Medieval Studies
- Italian history and politics
- the history of Italians in Texas
- Chairman, Department of Modern Languages (2024-present)
- Director of Italian (2016-present)
- Faculty Senator (2021-present)
- Associate Professor of Italian (2020-present)
- Assistant Professor of Italian (2016-2020)
- MIT 1301: First-Year Italian I
- MIT 1302: First-Year Italian II
- MIT 2311: Second-Year Italian I
- MIT 2312: Second-Year Italian II
- MIT 3311: Italian Literary Tradition I
- MIT 3322: Italian Literary Tradition II
- MIT 3343: Italian Literary Tradition III
- MIT 3323: Advanced Communication in Italian
- MIT 4311: The Italian City: Naples
- MIT 4311: The Italian City: Rome
- MIT 4311: The Italian City: Florence
- MIT 4311: The Italian City: Bologna
- MIT 3350: Introduction to Italian Cinema
- MIT 5301: Italian for Reading Knowledge I (Foundations)
- MIT 5302: Italian for Reading Knowledge II (Classics)
- MIT 4V51: (Italian) Lives of Saints
- MIT 4V51: La vita e le opere di Niccol貌 Machiavelli
- MIT 4V51: L鈥橧talia e la Chiesa nell鈥檈t脿 moderna
- MIT 4V51: Santi e peccatori nell鈥檃giografia medievale italiana
- MIT 4V51: La storia della filosofia italiana: il dibattito epistolare tra Gentile e Croce
- MIT 4V51: La vita nuova di Dante e l'amore cortese
- ENG 1301: Literary Tradition II: Dante, Milton, Lyric
Books
- European-Language Accounts of the Republic of Texas (1836-1845) (in-progress, Texas Tech University Press)
- Dante and the Politics of Literary Script: the 芦De vulgari eloquentia禄 and the Fortunes of Medieval Italian Lyric (in-progress, University of Toronto Press)
Refereed Journals and Edited Book Chapters
- 鈥淪urprising Encounters: Manzoni鈥檚 Dantean rhetorical palimpsest (PS VII-VIII and XXXIII-XXXIV)鈥, in Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Italian Studies, vol. 4, Dec. 2021, pp. 139-169.
- 鈥淛acopo Corbinelli鈥檚 De vulgari eloquentia (1577) and the Retorica di Ser Brunetto Latini in volgar fiorentino (1546),鈥 in Studi in onore di H. Wayne Storey, edited by Beatrice Arduini, Isabella Magni, and Jelena Tudorovic, Brill, 2021, pp. 304-317.
- 鈥淕illes M茅nage, Dante, and the Invention of Italian Medieval Literature鈥, Cahiers de Recherches M茅di茅vales et Humanistes (鈥楯ournal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies鈥), pp. 205-222. edited by Yann Dahhaoui and Barbara Wahlen.
- 鈥淯t exinde potionare possimus dolcissimum ydromellum鈥 (Dve I I 1): 鈥楧ante satiro鈥 and the De vulgari eloquentia, in 芦Dante Satiro禄, Lexington Press, edited by F. Alfie and N. Applauso, 2020, pp. 93-116.
- 鈥淎nnibale Ranuzzi, Il Texas, della sua condizione presente e del suo avvenire politico e commerciale (1842)鈥, Catholic Southwest: a Journal of History and Culture, vol. 30, 2019, pp. 33-45.
- 鈥淏occaccio e il Dve fra il codice Toledano e il codice Chigiano鈥, in Boccaccio 1313-2013, edited by F. Ciabattoni and K. Olson, Ravenna: Longo (October 2015).
- 鈥溾楶adre鈥 e 鈥楧onna del cielo鈥: Petrarca in Guittone della 鈥楪iuntina di rime antiche鈥欌, Medioevo letterario d鈥橧talia 9 (2012 [2013]), pp. 89-103.
- 鈥淒ante, Guittone, Guinizzelli, and the Politics of Literary Debate鈥, Textual Cultures 7.2 (2012 [2013]), pp. 43-72.
Scholarly Reviews
- 鈥淒uecento and Trecento I (Dante)鈥, The Year鈥檚 Work in Modern Language Studies (83), Brill, pp. 1-32, April 12, 2023.
- 鈥淒uecento and Trecento I (Dante)鈥, The Year鈥檚 Work in Modern Language Studies (82), Brill, pp. 135-163, April 20, 2022.
- 鈥淒uecento and Trecento I (Dante)鈥, The Year鈥檚 Work in Modern Language Studies (81), Brill, pp. 351-377, 2021.
- 鈥淒uecento and Trecento I (Dante)鈥, The Year鈥檚 Work in Modern Language Studies (80), Brill, pp. 484-503, June 17, 2020.
- 鈥淒uecento and Trecento I (Dante)鈥, The Year鈥檚 Work in Modern Language Studies (79), Brill, pp. 352-368, June 2019.
- 鈥淒uecento and Trecento I (Dante)鈥, The Year鈥檚 Work in Modern Language Studies (78), Brill, pp. 249-257, 2018.
- 鈥淒uecento and Trecento I (Dante)鈥, The Year鈥檚 Work in Modern Language Studies (77), Brill, pp. 161-168, 2017.
- 鈥淩eview of La biblioteca di Pietro Crinito: Manoscritti e libri a stampa della raccolta libraria di un umanista fiorentino. Series: Textes et 脡tudes du Moyen 脗ge (Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal: Porto, 2013)鈥, The Medieval Review (April 2014).
Other Published Materials
- 鈥淒ante and the Journey to God鈥, Studies in Catholic Faith and Culture, 911爆料网, 2019, pp. 43-52.
- 鈥淲rong-Answer Feedback for Online Student Activities Manual鈥, in Caleidoscopio, D. Bartalesi-Graf and C. Ryan, Pearson (2014).
- 鈥淭est Bank鈥, in Caleidoscopio, D. Bartalesi-Graf and C. Ryan, Pearson (2014).
Individual
- 2024 Haggar Fellow. Presented annually to one junior faculty member at the University of Dallas (2024)
- Haggar Scholar Award Winner for AAIS 2022 Conference in Bologna, Italy (2022)
- Haggar Scholar Award Winner for book project 鈥淒ante and the Politics of Script鈥 (2018)
- Andrea McRobbie Fellowship, Medieval Studies, Indiana University (2011)
- Lander MacClintock Award for Outstanding Academic Work in Italian, Indiana University (2010)
- Most Outstanding Associate Instructor of Italian, Indiana University (2008)
- Nominated for Dissertation Completion Fellowship, FRIT, Indiana University (2008-2010)
Italian Program
- Endowed Scholarship in Italian, 鈥淓nrica Ponti Zocchi and Aldo Ponti Scholarship."
- Italian Club of Dallas Scholarship of $1,000 to 911爆料网 students of Italian (2018-present).
- Italian Departmental Scholarship Program for incoming students ($1,000-$5,000, 4-year renewable).
- Lamberti鈥檚 Ristorante & Wine Bar (Irving, TX) to sponsor NOTAI Lecture Series.
- Financial backing from 911爆料网 Alumni Relations, Associazione Siciliani Texas and the Confederazione Siciliani Nord America for the February 2018 event Dallas in Prizzi.
- QEP Award, Tiramisu for Two, November 9, 2017.
- QEP Award for Luca Vullo: "The natural vocabulary of all peoples...", January 23, 2017.
- 鈥淒ante and the Church,鈥 2025 Boethius Center Symposium, 鈥淢edieval Religious Imagination: Unity in Diversity,鈥 Ave Maria University. Invited participant. March 14-15, 2025. (upcoming)
- 鈥淎ristocracy, Democracy, and the Church in Lampedusa鈥檚 The Leopard鈥 (upcoming; October-November 2024). Invited Seminars for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
- 鈥溾楺ual 猫 colui ch鈥檃docchia e s鈥檃rgomenta / di vedere eclissar lo sole un poco鈥 (Par. 25.118-119): The Eclipse and the Sun in Dante鈥檚 Commedia.鈥 Invited Presentation for 鈥淥ut of the Darkness and Into the Light: On-Campus Eclipse Experience,鈥 911爆料网, April 8, 2024.
- 鈥淛ustice, Mercy, Conversion: Alessandro Manzoni鈥檚 Promessi sposi (鈥楾he Betrothed鈥)鈥 (November-December 2023). Invited Seminars for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
- 鈥淰irgil,鈥 鈥淒ante, Virgilio, and [Giovanni del] Virgilio,鈥 911爆料网 Classics Club, October 14, 2023. Invited panelist.
- 鈥淚taly鈥檚 Literary Unification,鈥 Texas Woman鈥檚 University, October 1, 2023. Invited talk.
- 鈥淚talian Lyric from its Origins to Petrarca鈥, for 鈥淕reat Works of the Renaissance and Baroque,鈥 911爆料网, September 11, 2023. Invited lecture.
- 鈥淚taly and Texas, Italian Texans: An (Almost) 500-Year-Old Story?鈥, March 24, 2023. Invited Presentation for the DFW Italians' Gala Dinner.
- 鈥(I)talia o Talia?: The Italian Program and Second-Year II,鈥 Department of Modern Languages, 911爆料网, February 17, 2023.
- 鈥淭he New Italian Right? Reflections on the Revolution in Italy鈥, Young Conservatives of Texas, 911爆料网, October 19, 2022. Invited speaker.
- 鈥溾業mproper and 鈥楶roper鈥 Poetics in Dante鈥, Catholic Imagination Conference, October 1, 2022. Invited panelist.
- 鈥淪inners and Saints in Dante鈥檚 Comedy," (July-August 2022). Invited Seminars for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
- 鈥溾業mproper鈥 Poetics and the Silence of Hell,鈥 American Association of Italian Studies Conference, Bologna, Italy, May 29, 2022.
- 鈥淩eading Dante鈥檚 Paradiso,鈥 invited discussant, special panel, 100 Days of Dante, April 28, 2022. Invited panelist.
- 鈥淢anuscripts, Poetic Debates: Twitter and the Medieval Italian Sonnet,鈥 Modern Languages Symposium 鈥淓l/Il Sone(t)to,鈥 April 26, 2022.
- 鈥溾橲矛 che dal dir il fatto non sia diverso鈥 (Inf. 32.10): Metapoesis and Lexical Weight in Dante鈥檚 Commedia,鈥 University of North Georgia, April 8, 2022. Invited lecture.
- 鈥淒ante and The Quest, Episode 4.鈥 Discussion with alumni. March 31, 2022.
- 鈥淩eading Dante鈥檚 Inferno: Descent into Hell II,鈥 100 Days of Dante, December 22, 2021. Invited panelist.
- 鈥淩eading Dante鈥檚 Inferno: Descent into Hell,鈥 100 Days of Dante, December 2, 2021. Invited panelist.
- 鈥淭eaching Dante: 100 Days of Dante,鈥 Roundtable, SMU Bridwell Library Dante Festival and Conference, September 2, 2021. Invited discussant.
- 鈥Homo biologicus Isn鈥檛 Enough,鈥 SMU Bridwell Library Dante Festival and Conference, September 2, 2021.
- 鈥100 Days of Dante at 700,鈥 911爆料网 EnCore Lecture Series to alumni and community. An invited EnCore Lecture Series presentation and live Q-and-A sponsored by the University of Dallas Office of Alumni Relations. August 10, 2021.
- 鈥淪urprising encounters: Dante and Promessi sposi.鈥 Presented at the American Association of Italian Studies Conference, May 28-June 6, 2021.
- 鈥淧arallels and Pandemics: Manzoni鈥檚 Promessi sposi.鈥 Presented at 鈥淐risis and Consolation: Liberal Education in the Time of COVID-19,鈥滳onference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, April 12-18, 2021.
- Dante, the Church, and Italy鈥檚 Literary Unification,鈥 St. Anthony Academy鈥檚 Little Lay Oratory, January 15, 2021. Invited speaker.
- 鈥淒ante and the Journey to God,鈥 911爆料网 EnCore Lecture Series to alumni and community. An invited EnCore Lecture Series presentation and live Q-and-A sponsored by the 911爆料网 Office of Alumni Relations. August 11, 2020.
- 鈥淕iovanni Boccaccio鈥檚 Decameron,鈥 March 30, 2020., Center for Medieval Studies, 鈥淒ecameron Tales of the Coronavirus鈥, University of Minnesota. A video-lesson and introduction on Boccaccio鈥檚 Decameron for a project of the University of Minnesota Center for Medieval Studies.
- 鈥淭he Art of Teaching鈥, 911爆料网 Department of Art 鈥淚ntersections鈥 Lecture Series, November 20, 2019. Invited lecture.
- 鈥淭he Republic of Texas and the Risorgimento: the Case of Annibale Ranuzzi.鈥 Presented at the Italian American Studies Association Conference, Houston, TX, October 31, 2019.
- 鈥淒ante, the Commedia, and Sacred Space,鈥 University of North Texas, Department of Art, October 30, 2019. Invited lecture.
- 鈥淢odern Italy鈥檚 Literary Unification鈥, in 鈥淭he Modern World鈥 (graduate course), Braniff Graduate School, 911爆料网 (November 14, 2018). Invited lecture in Braniff graduate course.
- 鈥淚ntegrating Dante across the Curriculum at a Mission-Oriented University.鈥 Presented at the Third Biennial Teaching the Christian Intellectual Tradition Conference: 鈥淭eaching Dante鈥, Samford University, Birmingham, AL, October 25-27, 2018.
- 鈥溾榌L]ectos iuvenes, fortissima corda, / defer in Italian鈥: Italian and the trivium in the Twenty-First Century,鈥 Italian Pedagogy. Presented at South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio, TX, October 11-14, 2018.
- 鈥淩esearch in Library and Information Science: an Italian Perspective,鈥 鈥淩esearch in Library and Information Science鈥, Invited Presentation to Emporia State University, Kansas City, KS (Sept. 22, 2018).
- 鈥淐ontemporary Medieval Receptions of Dante鈥檚 Embryonic Theory in Purgatory 25.鈥 Presented at University Faculty for Life Conference, Irving, TX (June 8-9, 2018).
- 鈥溾業f we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change鈥: Italy as Nation-State鈥, Wingren Study Center, April 6, 2018, Irving, TX. Invited lecture.
- 鈥淭he First Italian Edition of More鈥檚 Utopia (1519) and the Aldine-Giunti Rivalry.鈥 Presented at Early Modern Thomas More(s), Irving, TX (November 3-4, 2017).
- 鈥淲hat is a Citizen? Ius sanguinis and ius soli in Contemporary Italy鈥, for 911爆料网 symposium, 鈥淚mmigration in Europe: a Modern Languages Perspective.鈥 October 25, 2017. Organizer and convener.
- 鈥淭he Parts and the Whole of Dante鈥檚 Comedy鈥, for 911爆料网 Faculty Book Discussion Day, 911爆料网 (August 16, 2017). Invited lecture.
- 鈥Stupor mundi? Sicily, Frederick II, and Medieval Italian Poetry, in 鈥淢edieval Worlds鈥 (graduate course), Braniff Graduate School, 911爆料网 (April 2017). Invited lecture.
- 鈥溌獹uidonem, Lapum [sic?], et unum alium, Florentinos, et Cynum 颅颅Pistoriensem禄: How Dante Became Dante in the De vulgari eloquentia.鈥 Presented at the Modern Language Association Conference 2017, Philadelphia, PA (January 7-10, 2017).
- 鈥淭he Business of the Italian Program at American Land-Grant Universities.鈥 Presented at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Pasadena, CA (November 11-13, 2016).
- 鈥淢edieval Italian Poetry and the Archaeological Paratext of the 1527 Giuntina.鈥 Presented at the Inventing Medieval Literature (16th-17th centuries) Conference, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (October 5-6, 2016).
- 鈥淒ante and the Foundations of Italian Literature: the Vita nova and the De vulgari eloquentia, in 鈥淒ante and Milton: the Christian Epic鈥, Braniff Graduate School, University of Dallas, Irving, TX (August 30, 2016). Invited lecture.
- 鈥淧olitics and Satire in Dante鈥檚 De vulgari eloquentia,鈥 911爆料网, Irving, TX (April 18, 2016). Invited lecture.
- 鈥溾榃ho is Dante? What is the Comedy?鈥 Infernal Auschwitz, Primo Levi, and Dante,鈥 鈥淗onors English II: Holocaust Literature,鈥 Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (February 5, 2016). Invited lecture.
- 鈥淭he History of the Italian Language,鈥 in 鈥淚talian for Travelers鈥, Invited lecture at Washburn University, Topeka, KS (February 4, 2016). Invited lecture.
- 鈥淚diosyncratic Italy and the Proverbial Paese,鈥 鈥淎rchitecture, Planning, and Design 701鈥, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (October 20, 2015). Invited lecture.
- 鈥Forma tractatus and forma tractandi in Dante鈥檚 De vulgari eloquentia.鈥 Presented at the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 8-11, 2014).
- 鈥淪otto il segno di Dante: la politica della lingua e la nascita della cultura letteraria,鈥 Invited lecture at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (January 28, 2014).
- 鈥淏occaccio e il De vulgari eloquentia.鈥 Presented at the Second Triennial International Boccaccio Conference, ABA, 鈥淏occaccio in Washington, DC鈥, Washington, DC (Oct. 4-6 2013)
- 鈥溾楲鈥檃rte del dire in rima鈥: Boccaccio and the questione della lingua.鈥 Presented at the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio (October 2012).
- 鈥溾楢ccipiendo vel compilando ab aliis鈥: the Anthological De vulgari eloquentia.鈥 Presented at the Student-Faculty Forum, Dept. of French and Italian, Indiana University (March 2011).
- 鈥淪oft Censorship: The Politics of Exclusion and Medieval Italian Literature.鈥 Presented at the UCLA conference Forbidden Ideas: Controversial Modes of Engagement in the Italian Intellectual Tradition, Los Angeles, California (October 2010).
- 鈥淗ierarchies and the Vanishing Point in Medieval Literary Culture.鈥 Presented at the Student-Faculty Forum, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University (April 2010).
- 鈥淒ante and Guittone: Hierarchies and the Vanishing Point in Medieval Literary Politics.鈥 Presented at Chiasmi, Brown-Harvard Conference, Providence, RI (March 2010).
- Seminar Leader for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Office of Pastoral Ministry (Dante, Alessandro Manzoni, Giuseppe Lampedusa, 2022-2024)
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- Aristocracy, Democracy, and the Church in Lampedusa鈥檚 The Leopard鈥 (Oct.-Nov. 2024)
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鈥淛ustice, Mercy, Conversion: Alessandro Manzoni鈥檚 The Betrothed鈥 (Nov.-Dec. 2023)
- 鈥淪inners and Saints in Dante鈥檚 Comedy鈥 (July-August 2022)
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Member, National Screening Committee for Fulbright U.S. Student English Language Teaching Assistantships in Italy (three-year term, 2023-2025)
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Co-Editor and Book-Review Editor (Medieval, English-Language), Annali d'Italianistica, 2019-present
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Contributing Editor (Dante Studies), The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 2016-present
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Advisory Board Member, 100 Days of Dante, 2021-present
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Co-Founder, Co-Organizer, Director of Italian Heritage, Dallas-Fort Worth Italian Festival, 2022-present.
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Assistant to the Editor, Textual Cultures, 2010-2011
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Italian Interpreter, Masterword Services (medical, educational),
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Italian Interpreter, Translator and Interpreter Network [TIN], Catholic Charities
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Italian-Language Ad-Content Reviewer, Zerochaos/Google
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