讲座题目：DANTE, BOCCACCIO, CHAUCER. THE INVENTION OF VERNACULAR LITERATURE

讲 座 人：Laura Iseppi De Filippis 副教授

主 持 人：徐斌 博士

讲座时间：12月16日（周一）14:30-16:00

讲座地点：JG209 会议室

讲座人简介：

Laura Iseppi De Filippis holds a Ph.D. in English from New York University (2004) and currently teaches in the European Studies Dept. and in the School of English Studies at Xi’an International Studies University. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and has previously taught as Adjunct Professor at NYU, Sarah Lawrence College, Università di Verona, Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona. Her publications include essays, translations and the editing of Inventing a Path: Studies in Medieval Rhetoric in Honour of Mary Carruthers Nottingham Medieval Studies 56 (Brepols, 2012). Her latest essay, ‘A Hell of a Job. Mnemotechnics and the Depiction of Trades in the Last Judgment at Chaldon, Surrey,’ is published in vol. 6 of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Zhejiang University Press, 2022). Her essay ‘Mnemotechnics, Vision, and Apocrypha. Sources of imagines agentes in Middle English Drama’ is forthcoming for Routledge in 2025.

讲座概要：

Geoffrey Chaucer is often named as the ‘father’ of English Literature because of his relevance in systematizing syntax and creating neologisms. But the linguistic and literary debts he owes to the poets of the Italian Middle Ages is often overlooked. A brief excursus on the creation of vernacular English will show unexpected influences.