Faculty & Staff Directory

Dr. Sergio Corsi
Title/s: Professor Emeritus
Specialty Area: Italian Language & Literature
Office #: CC 217C
Phone: 773.508.2871
E-mail:
Degrees
- 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)
Research Interests
- Italian and Comparative Medieval Literature
- Romance Philology
- Dante and the Medieval World
- Classical and Medieval Rhetoric
Courses 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
Selected Publications
Books
- "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 (An edition of unpublished series of Sonnets by Francesco Maria Paglia).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.