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Michael Sherberg

Michael Sherberg

Associate Professor of Italian
CV: 
Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
E-mail: 
sherberg@wustl.edu
Phone: 
(314) 935-6628
Office: 
Ridgley 302
Office Hours: 
Tues & Thurs: 11:30 - 12:30 pm
Mailbox: 

Campus Box 1077
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

Michael Sherberg received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. His areas of interest include Italian literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as Italian prose after the Unification, particularly children’s literature. He has published articles on Boccaccio, Boiardo, Tasso, and Machiavelli, the canti carnascialeschi tradition in Florence, and the Italian questione della lingua. He is the author of Rinaldo: Character and Intertext in Ariosto and Tasso (Anma Libri, 1993) and The Governance of Friendship: Law and Gender in the Decameron, which The Ohio State University Press published in 2011. He published an edition of Tasso’s Rinaldo with Longo Editore in 1990, and the volume Approaches to Teaching Collodi’s Pinocchio and Its Adaptations for the MLA’s Approaches to Teaching World Literature series in 2006. During the 2006-2007 academic year he was a senior fellow with the National Endowment for the Humanities. Currently he is editing (with Victoria Kirkham and Janet Smarr) Boccaccio: A Guide to the Complete Works, which will appear with the University of Chicago Press in 2013. He is also studying sixteenth-century translations of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy as part of a larger project involving translation and the language debates in the Renaissance.

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