Elsa Filosa

Elsa Filosa is Assistant Professor of Italian at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on fourteenth-century Italian literature, with particular emphasis on Boccaccio, Petrarch and Dante. She has published Tre studi sul De mulieribus claris (Milan: LED Edizioni Universitarie, 2012), several articles in American and Italian journals, and three co-edited books. In 2015-2016, she was a fellow at the Villa I Tatti in Florence, where she did research for her next monograph, Boccaccio’s Florence: Politics and People in His Life and Works, which is forthcoming with Toronto University Press. She is currently the treasurer of the American Boccaccio Association.