Professor Emeritus
Carr Hall, Room 215, 100 St. Joseph Street Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Cross-Appointments
Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
Centre for Comparative Literature Center for Medieval Studies
Areas of Interest
- Production Dramaturgy
- Medieval Literature
- Commedia dell'Arte
- Semiotics
- Science
- Literature
Biography
Current Courses Taught
- ITA199H - The Church in Italian Culture
- ITA425H - Performance Texts in the Commedia
- ITA1597H - Commedia dell'Arte
Past Courses Taught
- ITA311H - Medieval Italian Literature
- ITA315H - Theatre Text and Performance
- ITA321H - Purgatorio and Paradiso
- ITA390H - Commedia dell'Arte
- ITA1200H - Dante
- ITA1601H - Vico
- ITA1605H - Theories of the Stage
Education
Ph.D., University of Toronto
M.A., University of Toronto
B.Sc., University of Toronto
Awards
- 2004 Commendatore in the order Stella della Solidarietà Stella della Solidarietà
Publications
- Semiotics of the Christian Imagination (Bloomsbury Academic : 2020)
- Semiotics and Pragmatics of Stage Improvisation (Bloomsbury Publishing : 2016)
- The Baroque Libretto: Italian Operas and Oratorios in the Thomas Fisher Library at the University of Toronto (University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division : 2011)
- Dante studies in the age of Vico (Dovehouse Editions : 1989)