Dr. Anthony Nussmeier joined the Modern Languages faculty at the University of Dallas
as Assistant Professor of Italian and Director of Italian Language in 2016. Before
coming to UD, he taught at Kansas State University and The Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Nussmeier enjoys teaching all levels of Italian language and literature, and has
also had extensive experience teaching and leading study abroad, having directed a
study abroad program in Todi, Umbria and taught in Florence. At UD he also directs
the Intensive Italian Summer Rome Program. As an undergraduate he studied at the University
of Bologna, the world's oldest university (founded in 1088), where he studied Italian
politics, history, language, and dialàtt bulgnaiṡ (Bolognese dialect).
Areas of Expertise
Dante
Studies of medieval time literature
Italian pedagogy
Education
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
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor of Italian
Italian Program Director
Professional Experience
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
Recent Courses
First Year Italian I (MIT 1301)
Second Year Italian I (MIT 2311)
Research Interests
Dr. Nussmeier focuses on medieval and Renaissance literature, specifically Dante,
medieval poetry, manuscript culture, and early-book culture.
Selected Publications
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)
Presentations
"«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)
Awards & Honors
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