Department of Italian
HEATHER WEBB
Recent Publications:
Books
- The Medieval Heart. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 241 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-300-15393-4.
- Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 in the Humanities Category
- American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2011
Articles and Book Chapters
- 'Dante's Definition of Life', Dante Studies, 129 (2011), 47-62.
- '"Lacrime cordiali": Catherine of Siena and the Value of Tears.' A Companion to Catherine of Siena, ed. by George Ferzoco, Beverly Kienzle, Carolyn Muessig (Leiden: Brill, 2011).
- 'Paradiso 25: Hope.' California Lectura Dantis: Paradiso, ed. by Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross (Berkeley: University of California Press). Forthcoming.
- 'Deceit, Desire, and Conversion in Girard and Dante', Religion and Literature. Special edition: 'Deceit, Desire and the Novel 50 Years Later: The Religious Dimension', ed. by Ann W. Astell and Justin Jackson, 43.3 (2011). Forthcoming.
- 'Inferno from a Purgatorial (and Paradisiacal) Perspective', Dante's Inferno, ed. by Patrick Hunt (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2012), 49-62.
- 'Cardiosensory Impulses in Late Medieval Spirituality', Rethinking the Medieval Senses: Heritage/Fascinations/Frames, ed. by Stephen Nichols, Andreas Kablitz and Alison Calhoun (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) 265-285.
- 'Catherine of Siena's Heart', Speculum 80:3 (2005), 802-817. Reprinted in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, vol. 116, (2010).
- '"Per core un marmo": Dante's Stone Cold Rhymes', Dante Studies 121 (2003), 149-167.
