Michael J. Maher, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Italian | Program Director of Italian Studies
Education
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A., Middlebury College
B.A., College of the Holy Cross
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).