Anthony Nussmeier, Ph.D.

• Dante
• Studies of medieval time literature
• Italian pedagogy

• Ph.D., Italian Language and Literature, Indiana University
• M.A., Italian Language and Literature, Indiana University
• B.A., History and Italian Studies, University of Minnesota
  

• Assistant Professor of Italian
• Italian Program Director

• Contributor Editor (Dante), The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 2016-present
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian and Director of Italian Language, Kansas State University, 2015-2016
• Lecturer of Italian, The Pennsylvania State University, 2013-2015
• Director, The Pennsylvania State University in Todi, Italy, 2013-2015
• Visiting Lecturer of Italian and Coordinator of Intermediate Italian, Indiana University, 2011-2013
• Assistant to the Editor, Textual Cultures, 2010-2011

• First Year Italian I (MIT 1301)
• Second Year Italian I (MIT 2311)

Dr. Nussmeier focuses on medieval and Renaissance literature, specifically Dante, medieval poetry, manuscript culture, and early-book culture.

 

• Book:
  
  
• Dante and the Politics of Literary Script: the «De vulgari eloquentia» and the Fortunes of Medieval Italian Lyric (under contract with the University of Toronto Press)

• Articles in Refereed Journals and Edited Book Collections:

• "The First Italian Edition of Thomas More's Utopia (1519, Giunti, Florence) and the Aldine-Giuntine Rivalry" (in progress; 2017)
• "Gilles Ménage, Dante and the Invention of Italian Medieval Literature", Inventer la littérature médiéval, edited by Yann Dahhaoui and Barbara Wahlen (in progress; 2017)
• "2015: Dante at 750: A Critical Review", The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Brill (will be published in January 2017)
• "Ut exinde potionare possimus dolcissimum ydromellum" (Dve I I 1): 'Dante satiro' and the De vulgari eloquentia, in «Dante Satiro», Routledge, edited by F. Alfie and N. Applauso (submitted to publisher; expected 2016/2017).
• "Boccaccio e il Dve fra il codice Toledano e il codice Chigiano", in Boccaccio 1313-2013, edited by F. Ciabattoni and K. Olson, Ravenna: Longo (October 2015)
• "'Padre' e 'Donna del cielo': Petrarca in Guittone della 'Giuntina di rime antiche'", Medioevo letterario d'Italia 9 (2012 [2013]), pgs. 89-103.
• "Dante, Guittone, Guinizzelli, and the Politics of Literary Debate", Textual Cultures 7.2 (2012 [2013]), pgs. 43-72.

• Published Recent Scholarly Reviews:

• "La biblioteca di Pietro Crinito: Manoscritti e libri a stampa della raccolta libraria di un umanista fiorentino. Series: Textes et Études du Moyen Âge (Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal: Porto, 2013)", The Medieval Review (April 2014)
  
  
• Other Published Material:
  
  
• "Wrong-Answer Feedback for Online Student Activities Manual", in Caleidoscopio, D. Bartalesi-Graf and C. Ryan, Pearson (2014)
• "Test Bank", in Caleidoscopio, D. Bartalesi-Graf and C. Ryan, Pearson (2014)

• "«Guidonem, Lapum [sic?], et unum alium, Florentinos, et Cynum Pistoriensem»: How Dante Became Dante in the De vulgari eloquentia", MLA 2017, Dante Society of America, Philadelphia, PA (January 7-10, 2017) (upcoming)
• "The Business of the Italian Program at American Land-Grant Universities", PAMLA Conference, Pasadena, CA (November 11-13, 2016)
• "Medieval Italian Poetry and the Archaeological Paratext of the 1527 Giuntina", Inventing Medieval Literature (16th-17th centuries), University of Lausanne, Switzerland (October 5-6, 2016)
• "'Who is Dante? What is the Comedy?' Infernal Auschwitz, Primo Levi, and Dante", in "Honors English II: Holocaust Literature", Kansas State University (February 5, 2016)
• "The History of the Italian Language", in "Italian for Travelers", Washburn University (February 4, 2016)
• "Idiosyncratic Italy and the Proverbial paese", in "Architecture, Planning, and Design 701", Kansas State University (October 20, 2015)
• "Reseearch: a Medieval Italian Perspective", in "Research in Library and Information Science" (graduate course), Emporia State University (September 20, 2015)
• "Forma tractatus and forma tractandi in Dante's De vulgari eloquentia", 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 8-11, 2014)
• "Sotto il segno di Dante: la politica della lingua e la nascita della cultura letteraria", Dartmouth College (January 28, 2014)
• "Boccaccio e il De vulgari eloquentia", Second Triennial International Boccaccio Conference, ABA, "Boccaccio in Washington, DC", Washington, DC (Oct. 4-6 2013)
• "'L'arte del dire in rima': Boccaccio and the questione della lingua", Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio (October 2012)
• "'Accipiendo vel compilando ab aliis': the Anthological De vulgari eloquentia", Student-Faculty Forum, Dept. of French and Italian, Indiana University (March 2011)
• "Soft Censorship: The Politics of Exclusion and Medieval Italian Literature", Forbidden Ideas: Controversial Modes of Engagement in the Italian Intellectual Tradition, Los Angeles, California (October 2010)

• Andrea McRobbie Fellowship, Medieval Studies, Indiana University
• Lander MacClintock Award for Outstanding Academic Work in Italian, Indiana University
• Most Outstanding Associate Instructor of Italian, Indiana University