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Courtney Quaintance

Assistant Professor of French and Italian
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Departments and Programs

  • French and Italian

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Contact Information

Email: courtney.quaintance@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-2319
Office: 6087 Dartmouth Hall

Education

B.A. DePaul University; M.A. Middlebury College; Ph.D. University of Chicago

Areas of Expertise

Medieval and early modern Italian literature and culture; early modern Italian women writers; history of sexuality; early modern Italian academies and salons; Venetian social and cultural history; Venetian dialect poetry and drama

Selected Works

  • "Defaming the Courtesan: Satire and Invective in Sixteenth-Century Italy" in The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, M Feldman and B Gordon (eds.), (2006) 199-208.
  • "Poems in Terza Rima by Veronica Franco," in World Literature and Its Times: Profiles of Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them, Volume 7: Italian Literature and Its Times, J Moss (ed.), (2005) 351-359.

Current Projects

Gentlemen's Club: Masculinity and Collective Identity in Sixteenth-Century Venice, "Dialect and Dialogics: Manuscript Culture in Sixteenth-Century Venice"