Congratulations to Professor Jonathan Combs-Schilling, who was recently promoted to Associate Professor!

Combs-Schilling’s principal field of research and teaching is Medieval and Renaissance Italian culture from the 13th to the 16th centuries. His book, The Edge of Pastoral: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, is forthcoming with the University of Notre Dame Press.

Combs-Schilling teaches a variety of graduate, undergraduate, and GE courses. He created The Italian City study abroad program that takes place over four weeks in Bologna, Italy and is currently in its fourth iteration. 

Combs-Schilling also chairs FRIT's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism Committee.