Heather Webb

Heather Webb is Professor of Italian Studies and specializes in medieval literature and culture. She obtained her PhD at Stanford University in 2004 and has taught at The Ohio State University and the University of Cambridge where she was Head of Italian at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and a Fellow of Selwyn College. Webb is the author of The Medieval Heart (Yale, 2010), Dante’s Persons: An Ethics of the Transhuman (Oxford University Press, 2016), (translated into Italian as L’idea di persona in Dante. Corpo e identità. Tab edizioni 2023) and Dante, Artist of Gesture (Oxford University Press, September 2022). With George Corbett, she edited Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy, 3 vols (Open Book Publishers, 2015, 2016, 2017). With Pierpaolo Antonello, she edited Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: René Girard and Literary Criticism (Michigan State Press, 2015). With Zygmunt Baranski, she edited Dante’s Vita nova: A Collaborative Reading (University of Notre Dame Press, 2023). Her current project is a monograph provisionally entitled Affective Communities in Premodern Italy.