Associate Professor, Italian Language and Literature

scorsi@luc.edu

Research Interests

• Italian and Comparative Medieval Literature
• Romance Philology
• Dante and the Medieval World
• Classical and Medieval Rhetoric

Selected Publications

• BOOK
• "Il modus digressivus' nella Divina Commedia." Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1987. Series "Scripta Humanistica," no. 36.
• ARTICLES
• "I Paradossi di Ortensio Lando: testo e contesto." Italiana V. 1993, 77-93. (Special Issue, January 1993. Editor: Albert Mancini).
• "Per uno studio del modus digressivus." Studi di Italianistica. 1988, 75-89. Studi in onore di Giovanni Cecchetti. Edited by P. Cherchi and M. Picone. Ravenna: Longo Editore.
• "Un (an)alfabeto d'amore." Quaderni d'Italianistica 9, no. 1. Spring 1988, 21-40. (An edition of unpublished series of Sonnets by Francesco Maria Paglia).
• "L'olmo e la vite: Gerusalemme Liberata XX, 99." Modern Language Notes 102, no. 1. The John Hopkins University Press, January 1987, 141-146.

Education

• Ph.D. The University of Chicago (Italian Language and Literature)
• Ph.D. The University of Florence, Italy Dottore in Lettere e Filosofia (Doctor of Humanities)

Courses Regularly Taught

• Dante and the Medieval World
• The Modern Italian Novel
• Masterpieces of Italian Literature
• Stylistics
• Italian Language courses (101-251)
• Italian Literature 270/271 (in Italian)
• Modern Italian Poetry (in Italian)
• Italian XIX Century Poetry

Other Activities

• Language Section Director (Italian)
• Departmental Supervisor, WTC
• Publicity Committee
• Co-director Summer Program in Rome
• Gamma Kappa Alpha, Italian National Honor Society: Advisor