Michael J. Maher, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Italian | Program Director of Italian Studies

Education

Ph.D. in Italian, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (2013)

M.A. in Italian, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT (2005)

B.A. in Italian, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA (2003)

Courses Taught

ITAL 101, 102, 201, 202 Beginning and Intermediate Italian through Culture

ITAL 313, 314 Speaking and Italian Composition in Cultural Contexts

ITAL 328 Italian Language Study Abroad

ITAL 361 Survey of Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature

ITAL 362 Survey of Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature

ITAL 390 Racconti del Novecento

ITAL 390 La cultura del cibo in Italia

ITAL 452 Twentieth-Century Italian Literature

LTIT 270 Survey of Italian Cinema from WWII to the Present

FYSE 116 Ninja Turtles and their Italian Roots: The Renaissance in Popular Culture

Selected Publications

"Luigi Pulci’s Fifteenth-Century Verse Parody of Moses: A Denunciation of Marsilio Ficino’s Neoplatonic Christianity.” Quidditas 43 (2022).

“Luigi Pulci’s Parody of Josephus’s Judean Antiquities: An Indictment of Marsilio Ficino.” Italian Culture 36.2 (2018): 65-76.

“Flora, Fauna, and Marsilio Ficino in Luigi Pulci’s Morgante.” Forum Italicum 57 (2017): 203-17.

Book review of Martin Eisner. Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian. Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular Literature. New York: Cambridge UP, 2013. in Annali d’Italianistica 34 (2016): 532-34.

Authored and co-edited. “Italian Bookshelf: Poetry, Fiction, and Miscellaneous.” Annali d’Italianistica. 28 (2010).