Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- Dante Studies
- Medieval Italian Literature
- Augustine’s reception in Late Medieval Culture
- Late Medieval Chronicles
- Exemplary Literature
- Historiography
- Manuscript Studies
- Text/Image Studies
- Gender Studies
Biography
Elisa Brilli’s research focuses on Dante Studies, the interactions between history and literature, medieval exemplary literature, historiography and research methodologies. She is the author of Firenze e il Profeta, the chief editor of the Alphabetum Narrationum by Arnold of Liège, the co-editor of four volumes, and the author of several articles in academic journals and in books. She is Associate Member of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto (2015-), the Laboratoire d’études sur les Monothéismes, EPHE-CNRS-Paris IV (2012-), the Kunsthistorisches Institut, MPG in Florence (2010-), AHLoMA, EHESS (2007-), and Fellow of Victoria University in the University of Toronto (2017-2022). She works on the Editorial Board of Dante Studies (2015-), the Bibliographic Committee of the Dante Society of America (2018-), the Advisory Boards of Quaderni d’Italianistica (2020-2023), Studi Danteschi (2019-), and the Rivista internazionale di ricerche dantesche (2018-).
Current Courses Taught
- ITA320H1-F - Dante: Vita Nuova and Divina Commedia (Inferno)
- ITA312H1-S - Dante: Divina Commedia (Purgatorio and Paradiso)
- ITA1200H-S - Dante
Past Courses Taught
- ITA320H - Dante: Vita Nuova and Divina Commedia (Inferno)
- ITA312H - Dante: Divina Commedia (Purgatorio and Paradiso)
- ITA420H - Spinning a Tale: The Italian Short Story from Boccaccio to Basile
- ITA1200H - Dante
- ITA1202H - Dante and Augustine
- ITA1535H - Topics in Italian Literature
Education
Awards
- 2022 2020 SSHRC Insight Development Grant Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council- Government of Canada
- 2020 Dean’s Merit Award
- 2019 Dean's Excellence Awards University of Toronto
- 2018 Dean's Excellence Awards University of Toronto
- 2017 Dean's Excellence Awards University of Toronto
- 2016 Dean's Excellence Awards University of Toronto
- 2016 Medal for Scholarly Merits in the field of Dante Studies Società Dantesca Italiana
Publications
- Dante. Des vies nouvelles (Fayard : 2021)
- Vite nuove. Biografia e Augtobiografia di Dante (Carocci : 2021)
- The Dominicans and the Making of Florentine Cultural Identity (13th-14th centuries) / I domenicani e la costruzione dell'identità culturale fiorentina (XIII-XIV secolo) ( Firenze University Press : 2020)
- Agostino, Agostiniani e Agostinismi nel Trecento italiano (Longo : 2018)
- Arnoldus Leodiensis (Arnold de Seraing, Liège). Alphabetum Narrationum (Brepols : 2015)
- Images and Words in Exile Avignon and Italy During the First Half of the 14th Century. (Sismel-Edizioni del Galluzzo : 2015)
- Firenze e il profeta. Dante fra teologia e politica (Carocci : 2012)