Associate Professor of Italian and Chair 2008/09
Chicago Hall 127
(845) 437-5615
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Eugenio Giusti was born and raised in Lucca, Italy. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Florence with a degree in History and Philosophy in 1980. He received his Ph.D. in Italian Medieval Literature from New York University in 1991.
Giusti's fields of interest are: a) Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron and Early Works; b) the Renaissance epic novel and the epic representation of Christopher Columbus's enterprise; and b) gender roles and sexual behavior in Renaissance culture.
He has published several articles on Giovanni Boccaccio's representation of women, Christopher Columbus's enterprise, the novella genre, and contemporary gay movement and culture. His book entitled "From Courtly Love to Understanding: Giovanni Boccaccio's ideological Journey from the Caccia di Diana to the Decameron" (1999) was published by LED edizioni, a publisher associated with the Università Statale in Milan, Italy.
Giusti joined the Vassar Faculty in 1992 and in addition to teaching survey courses on Medieval and Renaissance Literature and two seminars on the Italian Renaissance, he has also taught courses such as "Love's Phenomenology in Medieval and Renaissance Literature", "The Concept of 'Otherness' in Renaissance Literature" and "Women, Love and Prostitution in Renaissance Texts", but his favored most popular course is "Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron: The Novella as a Microcosm".