Teodolinda Barolini

Teodolinda Barolini is the Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian at Columbia University, and has twice served as Chair of the Department of Italian (1992–2004 and 2011–2014).[1]

Teodolinda Barolini
Teodolinda Barolini, 2016
OccupationProfessor of Italian
Academic background
Academic work
DisciplineItalian literature
Sub-disciplineDante studies

Barolini was born December 19, 1951 in Syracuse, New York. She is the daughter of Antonio Barolini[1] and Helen Barolini.

In 1998, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the study of Italian literature.[2] From 1997 to 2003, she served as president of the Dante Society of America.[1] In 2007, she won a Flaiano Prize in Italian Studies.[3]

She has written on the poetry of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio.[1]

She is married to James J. Valentini, professor of Chemistry at Columbia and the sixteenth and current Dean of Columbia College.

References
  1. "Teodolinda Barolini". Columbia University. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
  2. "Teodolinda Barolini". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
  3. "Premio di Italianistica" (in Italian). Associazione Culturale Ennio Flaiano. Retrieved April 17, 2016.


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