CM, OMRI, FRSC, Professor Emeritus
Victoria College, room 205, 3 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1K7
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Cross-Appointments
Renaissance Studies Program, Victoria College
Department of History
Department for the Study of Religion
Centre for Medieval Studies
Areas of Interest
- Renaissance literature, theatre, history, and culture
- Early modern confraternities
- Sex and gender
- Early modern women
- Italian immigration in Canada
- Giuliano-Dalmata history, culture, and literature
Biography
Konrad Eisenbichler is a prize-winning scholar working on the intersection of literature, politics, and religion in Renaissance Italy, with a side interest in the literature and history of Italian immigration in Canada. His many contributions to scholarship have been recognized at the highest levels both in Canada and Italy. A prolific author with more than 30 books authored, edited or translated, and over 70 articles in peer-reviewed venues, he has also served the Academy in senior positions including as president of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, and the Canadian Society for Italian Studies, as chair of the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium, and as director of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. Within the Italian community, he has long been editor of the quarterly "El Boletin" of the Club Giuliano Dalmato di Toronto and a three-term president of the Federazione Giuliano-Dalmata Canadese.
Past Courses Taught
- ITA311H - Medieval Literature in Translation: Dante
- ITA312H - Boccaccio and Petrarch
- ITA370H - Power and Success in Renaissance
- ITA426H / ITA1736H - Working with Pre-Modern Italian Texts
- ITA1535H - The Giuliano-Dalmata Diaspora in Canada: Its Origins and Literature
- ITA1540H - Renaissance Italian Theatre
- ITA1545H - The Sacra rappresentazione
- ITA1550H - Literature, and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Florence
- VIC141Y - Discovery, and Revolution in the Renaissance
- VIC343Y - Sexuality and Gender in the Renaissance
- VIC345H - Media and Communication in the Renaissance
- VIC440Y - Florence in the Renaissance
Education
Ph.D., University of Toronto
M.A., McMaster University
Hon. B.A., McMaster University
Awards
- 2024 festschrift, Il teatro tra Quattrocento e Seicento. Studi in onore di Konrad Eisenbichler. FedOA – Federico II University Press in Naples.
- 2023 Member of the Order of Canada By appointment of the Governor General of Canada.
- 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award McMaster University
- 2023 Honorary Member Canadian Association for Italian Studies
- 2022 Honorary Member (“per meriti culturali”) of the Comunità di Lussinpiccolo, Associazione italiana dei Lussignani non più residenti a Lussino.
- 2021 Dedicatee of Jonathan Locke Hart’s book Shakespeare, Renaissance and Empire, vol. 1, Geography and Language (London: Routledge, 2021).
- 2019 Premio Dignità Giuliano Dalmata nel Mondo City of Assisi; Società di Studi Fiumani (Rome); Associazione Fiumani Italiani nel Mondo (Padua); Associazione Nazionale Venezia Giulia e Dalmazia (Rome)
- 2019 Dedicatee (festschrift) Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy, ed. Jacqueline Murray and Nicholas Terpstra. London: Routledge, 2019.
- 2018 Albo d’oro dei personaggi illustri Associazione Fiumani Italiani nel Mondo
- 2014 Fellow The Royal Society of Canada
- 2014 Knight (Cavaliere) Associazione Cavalieri di San Marco
- 2014 Medal of Merit The Autonomous Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Italy)
- 2013 40th annual Ennio Flaiano International Prize in the category “Italianistica” (Italian Literary Criticism)
- 2013 Outstanding Academic Title Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
- 2012 Finalist, Book of the Year Award ForeWord
- 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award The Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies
- 2012 Honourable Mention, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies Modern Languages Association
- 2010 Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic President of the Italian Republic
- 2009 Premio Internazionale Giorno del Ricordo Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture of Italy
- 2007 Socio straniero Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (Venice)
- 2006 International Literary Prize Umberto Saba (Trieste) for translation
- 1999 Howard R. Marraro Prize for best book
- Gold Medal for “Fedeltà al lavoro” Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Camera di Commercio e Industria), Trieste, Italy
Publications
- Premodern Masculinities in Transition (Boydell and Brewer : 2024)
- Masculinities and Representation: The Eroticized Male in Early Modern Italy and England (University of Toronto Press : 2024)
- "The Secret of Bald Island" by Claudia Sonia Colussi Corte (Club Giuliano Dalmato : 2023)
- "In the Maelstrom of History. A Conversation with Miriam" by Rosanna Turcinovich Giuricin (Club Giuliano Dalmato : 2022)
- A Garland of Gifts: Essays in Honour of Olga Zorzi Pugliese (Soleil : 2021)
- "Five Plays for the Archangel Raphael" by Giovan Maria Cecchi (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies : 2020)
- Forgotten Italians: Julian-Dalmatian Writers and Artists in Canada (University of Toronto Press : 2019)
- A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities (Brill : 2019)
- The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena (University of Notre Dame Press : 2012)
- Renaissance Medievalisms (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies : 2009)
- The Cultural World of Eleonora di Toledo, Duchess of Florence and Siena (Ashgate : 2004)
- The Premodern Teenager: Youth in Society, 1150-1650 (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies : 2002)
- The Cultural Politics of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici (Ashgate : 2001)
- The Boys of the Archangel Raphael. A Youth Confraternity in Florence, 1411-1785 (University of Toronto Press : 1998)