Richard Lansing

Professor Emeritus of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature

Departments/Programs

Romance Studies

Degrees

University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley, M.A.
Columbia University, B.A.

Expertise

Medieval Italian literature. Dante. Comparative Renaissance literature. Epic and romance.

Profile

Webpage

Awards and Honors

Apointed to Editorial Board of "La parola del testo," Italian literary journal (2012)

Appointed Editor-in-Chief of Dante Studies, journal of the Dante Society of America (2008)

Appointed member of the Editorial Board of Studi danteschi, published by the Societa' Dantesca Italiana, Florence (2008)

Associate Editor, Dante: Rivista internazionale 2004- (2004)

Choice Outstanding Book for 2000 (The Dante Encyclopedia) (2002)

Advisory Board, Letteratura Italiana Antica (2000)

Culpeper Foundation Grant (1997)

Mazer Award, Brandeis University (1997)

Associate Editor, Dante Studies 1987- (1987)

Sloan Grant (1986)

Sachar Faculty Grant, Brandeis University (1980)

Mabelle McLeod Lewis Grant (1972)

Dino Bigongiari Award in Italian (1965)

Scholarship

Lansing, Richard H. "Dante’s Youthful Lyrics in English Translation." “Legato con amore in un volume": Essays in Honour of J.A. Scott. Ed. John J. Kinder and Diana Glenn. Florence: Olschki, 2012 (forthcoming)

Lansing, Richard H. "The Pageantry of Dante's Verse." Dante Studies vol. 126. (2008). (forthcoming)

Lansing,Richard H. ""Canto III: Piccarda Donati and the Poetics of Paradox"." Dante: Paradiso. The California Lectura Dantis, III: Paradiso ed. Ed. Allen Mandelbaum. Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif.: U of California Press, 2007 (forthcoming)

Lansing, Richard H. "Statius’s Homage to Vergil, in Tra Amici: Essays in Honor of Giuseppe Mazzotta." MLN 127. (2012): S91-S98.

Lansing, Richard H. "The Structure of the "Vita nova”." “Accessus ad Auctores”: Studies in Honor of Christopher Kleinhenz. Ed. Fabian Alfie and Andrea Dini. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011. 77-92.

Lansing, Richard H. "The Structure of the Vita nova." Studies in Honor of Christopher Kleinhenz, ed. Fabian Alfie. (2011): 77-92.

Lansing, Richard H. The Dante Encyclopedia. electronic editions: Amazon Kindle, Barnes&Nobel Nookbook ed. New York: Routledge, 2011.

Lansing, Richard H, Editor. The Dante Encyclopedia. Paperback (with revisions) ed. New York: Routledge, 2010.

Lansing, Richard H. "Delitto di Perugia." Il Corriere della Sera December 10, 2009: Italians di Beppe Severgnini (online).

Lansing, Richard H. "Vergil's Homage to Homer in Aeneid 1.1-7." Vergilius 54. (2008): 3-8.

Purgatorio XXI. Video lecture on Dante. http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/lansing. Lansing, Richard H. Boston College, 2007.

Lansing, Richard H. "Inf. 16-17: 'e vidi le sue spalle / vestite', EBDSA, December 10, 2007.." EBDSA (Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America) (2007).

Lansing, Richard H. "The Spirit of the New in Dante." Letteratura Italiana Antica 7. (2007): 267-71.

Lansing,Richard H, Christopher Kleinhenz. Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia.. Routledge: New York and London., 2003.

Lansing,Richard H. Dante: The Critical Complex (8 vols.). 2002.

Lansing,Richard H, ed. The Dante Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing, 2000.

Lansing,Richard H., trans. Il Convivio (The Banquet). Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Ser. B. N, 1990.

Lansing,Richard H. From Image to Idea; A Study of the Simile in Dante's Commedia. Longo Editore, 1977.