Public Writing and Speaking

A Librarian Like No Other: Belle da Costa Greene and Self-Invention, Rare Book School, Summer 2024.

Dante: A Poem and Its Afterlife National Gallery of Art, 16 June 2023.

The Art of the Self: Belle da Costa Greene and Bernard Berenson, Villa I Tatti Council Lecture, April 2023.

Loving by the Book: Belle da Costa Greene, Bernard Berenson, and Dante, forthcoming on the Belle Greene-Bernard Berenson Letters Project.

Berenson, Dante and Botticelli, Master Class, Villa I Tatti.

Painting Poets: The Medici: Portraits and Power. Talk on Bronzino's and Vasari's portraits of Dante Talk given for the Metropolitan Museum, NYC in September 2021 for the exhibition, The Medici: Portraits and Power, 1512-1570.

BBC 3. Dante's Visions

"Dante in the World," talk for Dantedì, 700th anniversary of Dante's death, Georgetown University, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Washington, DC. March 2021.

"Dore's Dante: Influence, Transformation and Innovation," Keynote talk for Memory and Imagination in Italian Fiction and Non-fiction, Italian Studies, University of Toronto.

Interview with Italian Network on teaching Dante in the US on occasion of 700th centenary of Dante's death.

Inferno 3: Dante’s Conception of Cowardice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSheGv-4Zss

Inferno 18: Sins Worse than Murder: Pimping and Bootlicking in Malebolge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdL77pBU2U0

Purgatory 16: The Poem’s Moral Center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrgwMRFzkqY&list=UUvLd1MEd5Qv2LQ7LIR7Khmw&index=36

Reviews and media appearances for Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy (UVa Press, 2017)
 
Media interviews for Sucking Up: 

 

            Salon Talks: Does Sucking up get you anywhere in life?

            https://www.facebook.com/salon/videos/10155310994451519/

Diversifying Italian Studies, CUNY conference, 17 January 2019

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Diversity in Italian Studies - Keynote Lecture and Response by Deborah Parker

Bronzino’s Erotic imagination: The Lesson of On the Paintbrush

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Bronzino's Erotic Imagination: The Lesson of "On The Paintbrush"