Courtney Quaintance

Assistant Professor of French and Italian

Departments and Programs French and Italian Related Links http://www.dartmouth.edu/~frandit/faculty/quaintance.html

Contact Information

Email: courtney.quaintance@dartmouth.edu

Phone: 603-646-2319

Hinman Box: HB 6087

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”