Department of Italian
HEATHER WEBB
Recent Publications:
Books
- The Medieval Heart. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 241 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-300-15393-4.
- Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 in the Humanities Category
- American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2011
Articles and Book Chapters
- "Inferno from a Purgatorial (and Paradisiacal) Perspective." Dante's Inferno. Salem Press Critical Insights, Patrick Hunt, ed. Forthcoming.
- "'Lacrime cordiali': Catherine of Siena and the Value of Tears." A Companion to Catherine of Siena. Eds. George Ferzoco, Beverly Kienzle, Carolyn Muessig (Leiden: Brill). Forthcoming, Fall 2011.
- "Paradiso 25: Hope." California Lectura Dantis: Paradiso. Eds. Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross (Berkeley: University of California Press). Forthcoming.
- "Cardiosensory Impulses in Late Medieval Spirituality." Rethinking the Medieval Senses: Heritage/Fascinations/Frames. Eds. Stephen Nichols, Andreas Kablitz and Alison Calhoun (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) 265-285.
- "Catherine of Siena's Heart." Speculum 80:3 (July 2005), 802-817. Reprinted in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, vol. 116.
- "'Per core un marmo': Dante's Stone Cold Rhymes." Dante Studies 121 (2003), 149-167.
