“A letter on Consolation: Innocence and Politics”

March 1, 2018

Elsa Filosa is Assistant Professor of Italian at Vanderbilt University. She holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Laurea in Modern Philology from the Università degli Studi di Milano. Her research focuses on Fourteenth century Italian Literature, with particular emphasis on Boccaccio. She published a book (Tre Studi sul De mulieribus claris. Milan: LED Edizioni Universitarie, 2012), several articles on American and Italian journals, and co-edited the proceedings of the ABA Conference of 2010 and 2013. She has been for two mandates the Secretary of the American Boccaccio Association.