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Heather Webb, Assistant Professor of Italian



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Office Information
221 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210

Phone: 614-292-2273
Fax: 614-292-7403

Office Hours:
Off Duty. Contact Prof. Webb by email (webb.345@osu.edu), or see Jodi Obert in Hagerty 200 for information on the Italian major and minor.

Personal URL(s):
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/webb345/

Ph.D. Italian, Stanford University, June 2004 B.A. Literary Studies, Middlebury College, 1998

Professor Webb specializes in the literature and cultural history of medieval and Renaissance Italy. Areas of research include Dante, early Italian lyric poetry, devotional poetry and prose and history of the body. Her book, entitled The Medieval Heart, is forthcoming. She has published essays on Giovanni da San Gimignano's analysis of sensory function, Catherine of Siena's ideas about the heart and on Dante's "rime petrose." An essay on Paradiso 25 is forthcoming. Professor Webb regularly teaches two GEC classes in English, Dante in Translation (IT 251) and IT 151. She also teaches varied courses in Italian at the graduate and undergraduate levels and is on the oversight committee for the Center for the Study of Religion.

Curriculum Vitae [DOC]

[DOC] - Some links on this page are to .doc files. These are designated by [DOC] following the link. DOC files require the use of Microsoft Word software to open them. If you do not have Word, you may purchase it at www.microsoft.com or contact Heather Webb to receive it in an alternate format.