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11/8/23

ISSNAF Stories

Arts & Humanities

Literature

Filippo Gianferrari

Assistant Professor

University of California Santa Cruz

University of California Santa Cruz

2023 ISSNAF Young Investigator RnB4Culture Award

Exploring Medieval Education, Literacy, and Italian City-States.


Filippo Gianferrari is Assistant Professor of Literature at The University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a trained medievalist with a particular interest on the history of education and literacy in the pre-modern West and its impact on the political and social lives of Italian city-states. Gianferrari is originally from Modena, Italy, graduated from the University of Bologna and received a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame. Before working at UCSC, he taught at Vassar College and Smith College. 

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