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The University of Chicago                                                                                      5619 S. Dorchester,

Department of Romance Languages                                                                          Chicago, IL 60637

and Literatures                                                                                                              U.S.A.

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Birth Date:                             May 10, 1937

Birth Place:                            Oschiri (Sassari), Italy

Nationality:                           Italy and USA

Status:                                      Married – one son

Degrees:                                  Laurea in Lettere – Cagliari, 1962

                                                    Ph.D. Romance Languages – University of

                                                    California – Berkeley, 1966

Teaching                                 1965-66 Instructor – University of Chicago

Positions:                               1966-71 Assistant Professor – University of Chicago

                                                    1971-77 Associate Professor – University of Chicago

                                                    1977- 2003 – Professor – University of Chicago

                                                    2003-2009 – Professor Università di Ferrara

Fields of

Specialization:                      Italian Literature (Middle Ages to Baroque)

                                                    Old Provençal Literature

                                                    Spanish Medieval and 18th Century Literature

Editorial Boards:                 Annali d’Italianistica

                                                    Forum Italicum

                                                    Modern Philology (1973-1998)

                                                    Italica

                                                    Critica del testo

Fellowships: NEH fellowship for the year 1992-1993.

Prizes: Premio Letterario Geraci for a short story.  1992.

Premio Letterario Giuseppe Dessi: Premio Speciale della Giuria, anno 2000

Modern Philology: “Essays in Honor of Paolo Cherchi”, Edited by Elissa Weaver and Josua Scodell, November 2003.

Ufficiale dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, July 2003.

Socio Straniero Accademia dei Lincei 2016