Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature: Petrarch, humanist pedagogy, humanist and Renaissance Petrarchan exegesis
Philology: manuscript tradition of Petrarch’s Canzoniere; Petrarchan commentaries
Linguistics: Italian as a second language; inclusive linguistic education; emergent literacy and formal literacy
Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature: intersections among literature, mythology, art, music, dance, and cinema (Settecento reinterpretations of Eros/Cupid; Fenoglio and American popular music; Pasolini’s Teorema: adaptation and intermediality)
