Guy Raffa is a specialist in medieval Italian literature (Dante above all) with a secondary interest in modern Italian authors, particularly Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco. Raffa strives to make his research more directly and immediately useful not only to fellow academic experts, but also to teachers, students and ambitious readers. His public scholarship is available at [link: https://guyraffa.com] guyraffa.com
Raffa's book DANTE'S BONES: HOW A POET INVENTED ITALY is forthcoming with Harvard University Press. He has published three previous books: "Divine Dialectic: Dante's Incarnational Poetry" (Toronto, 2000), "Danteworlds: A Reader's Guide to the "Inferno"" (Chicago, 2007), and "The Complete Danteworlds: A Reader's Guide to the "Divine Comedy"" (Chicago, 2009). He is also the project director of the Danteworlds website, a multimedia tour of Dante's vision of hell, which was selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities as "one of the best online resources for education in the humanities."
His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Ph.D.
in Italian, Indiana University, 1991
M.A.
in Italian, Indiana University, 1986
B.S.
in Computer Science and Mathematics, Duke University, 1982
Dante Studies, medieval Italian literature and culture, digital humanities, history and philosophy of science, Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco
Editorial Board,
Bibliotheca Dantesca (2019 - Present)
Chair,
Graduate Studies Committee, Italian Studies (2018 - Present)
Editorial Advisory Board,
Rivista internazionale di ricerche dantesche (2018 - Present)
Graduate Adviser,
Italian Studies, (2014 - 2018)
Vice President,
Dante Society of America (2005 - 2006)
Councilor,
Dante Society of America (2003 - 2006)
South West Representative,
American Association of Teachers of Italian (1999 - 2002)
Editorial Advisory Board,
Dante Studies
Editorial Advisory Board,
Letterature Italiana Antica
"Divine Dialectic: Dante's Incarnational Poetry" (Toronto, 2000); "Danteworlds: A Reader's Guide to the Inferno" (Chicago, 2007); "Danteworlds: A Reader's Guide to the 'Divine Comedy'" (Chicago, 2009)
Creative Student Engagement Award
- School of Undergraduate Studies (2014)
Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Humanities (2012)
Fellowship
- American Council of Learned Societies (2011 - 2012)
Humanities Research Award
- The College of Liberal Arts, UT Austin (2009 - 2012)
Gold Award (Danteworlds)
- Innovative Instructional Technology Awards Program (2007)
Silver Award (Danteworlds)
- Innovative Instructional Technology Awards Program (2003)
President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award
- The University of Texas at Austin (2002)
"Translating Dante's Body",
Dante Society of America, University of Oregon (2017)
"Danteworlds: DHing the Scholar-Teacher in the Piazza",
Texas Language Center / COERLL, University of Texas at Austin (2016)
"Dante's Immortal Remains: From Florentine Martyr to Global Icon",
Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library, Chicago (2013)
"Romancing the Tomb: Dante's Bones and Italian History",
Yale University, New Haven, CT (2010)
