Olivia Holmes

Professor, English and Medieval Studies

(Ph.D., Northwestern University)
tel.: (607) 777-2730
e-mail: oholmes@binghamton.edu

Areas of Interest

Medieval Studies, Early Modern Studies, Gender and Sexualities, Rhetorical Discourse, Italian Literature, Troubadours, Authorship, Book History

Books

• "Dante’s Two Beloveds: Ethics and Erotics in the Divine Comedy," 2008
• "Assembling the Lyric Self: Authorship from Troubadour Song to Italian Poetry Book," 2000 (Winner of the American Association of Italian Studies Book Award)

Recent Book Chapters and Articles

• “Virgil and Sordello’s Embrace in Dante’s Commedia: Latin Poeta Meets Vernacular Dicitore.” Mediaevalia 36/37 (2015/2016): 79-117
• “Beyond Exemplarity: Women’s Wiles from the Disciplina Clericalis to the Decameron,” Boccaccio 1313–2013 (2015)
• “Petrarch and his Vernacular Lyric Predecessors,” The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch (2014)
• “Trial by Beffa: Retributive Justice and In-group Formation in Day 8,” special issue of Annali d’italianistica on Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron (2013)
• “Sex and the City of God.” Critica del testo, special issue on Dante Today (2011)

Recent Courses Taught

• Medieval 101: Introduction to Medieval and Early Modern Studies
• Rhetorical Foundations: Rhetoric and Critical Theory from Plato to the Renaissance
• Pre-modern Tales East West
• Medieval Stories Saints Lovers
• What’s Love Got To Do With It?
• Dante’s Divine Comedy
• Boccaccio’s Decameron
• European Merchants and Other Medieval Travelers