**List of Contributors**

**Albert Russell Ascoli** is Gladyce Arata Terrill Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and currently serves as President of the Dante Society of America. He is the author of three books—*Ariosto's Bitter Harmony* (1987); *Dante and the Making of a Modern Author* (2008) and *A Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian Renaissance* (2011)—as well as numerous essays and several co-edited books and journal issues, including, most recently, *The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch* (with Unn Falkeid, 2015). He has held a number of fellowships, including the NEH-Mellon Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome (2004-2005), and he was recently elected "membro straniero" of the Academy of the Istituto Lombardo. His current research project is a study of the problem of fede (faith) as promise and belief in the early modern period.

**Paul Camacho** is an Arthur J. Ennis Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program (ACS) at Villanova University. In addition to teaching ACS (a two-semester humanities sequence which educates students in Augustinian inquiry through a great-books curriculum), Paul also teaches courses in Philosophy and Humanities, including The Problem of Love: A Philosophical Investigation, Augustine and Antiquity, and Philosophy and the *Divine Comedy*.

**David Chapman** is professor of English at Samford University, where he teaches courses in British literature and nonfiction prose. He regularly teaches Cultural Perspectives, a core curriculum requirement for all entering students, and the Western Intellectual Tradition, a series of courses for University Fellows. For fifteen years, Chapman was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Samford.

**John Edelman** is professor of Philosophy at Nazareth College of Rochester. He is the author of *An Audience for Moral Philosophy?* (Macmillan, 1990) and the editor of, as well as a contributor to, *Sense and Reality: Essays out of Swansea* (Ontos Verlag, 2009). He has published articles and reviews on ethics, the philosophy of religion, Aquinas and Wittgenstein in a variety of journals.

**Sarah Faggioli** is assistant professor in the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program at Villanova University, where she teaches in the two-semester humanities sequence for freshmen. She studied medieval Italian literature in Florence through Middlebury College for her MA and she received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2014. Her research focuses on Renaissance Italian poetry, commentaries, and the printing industry.

**Christopher A. Hill** is an associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Martin, where he teaches sixteenth and seventeenth century English literature His research is focused on the intersections of rhetoric and religious thought in the prose and poetry of the Tudor and Stuart periods in English literature, and has published essays on George Herbert's poetry and on the Martin Marprelate Controversy.

**Sean Lewis** is an assistant professor of English at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He has published on medieval poetic theory and the reception history of a variety of medieval texts, including an article on Wendell Berry's use of Dante's *Commedia*. Dr. Lewis serves as the coordinator for Origins of the West, a Humanities course required of all freshmen, in which Dante's *Purgatorio* is studied, and he teaches the entire *Commedia* in one of his regular electives on the Epic tradition.

**Matthew Rothaus Moser** is Lecturer in Theology at Loyola University Maryland, where he teaches courses on theology and literature, Augustine, Dante, and the Christian Imagination. He is the author of *Love Itself is Understanding: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theology of the Saints* and the forthcoming *Dante and the Poetic Practice of Theology*.

**Julie Ooms** is assistant professor of English at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, MO. There, she teaches a variety of courses and texts, among them Dante's *Inferno* and *Purgatorio* in the context of a general education world literature course. She has also written about Dante's influence on the graphic novel *V for Vendetta*.

**Jane Kelley Rodeheffer** holds the Fletcher Jones Chair in Great Books at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. A philosopher, she received degrees from Boston College, Harvard, and Vanderbilt. She teaches *The Divine Comedy* frequently in Pepperdine's Great Books Colloquium and has published widely in philosophy, literature, and great books, including Dante.

**Dennis Sansom** is professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Samford University. He joined the faculty in 1988 and has taught courses in the Department of Philosophy and the general education curriculum. Most of his research has been in the interface between the history of philosophy with ethics, literature, and education.

**Bryan Whitfield** is director of the Great Books program and associate professor in the Columbus Roberts Department of Religion at Mercer University. In addition to teaching courses in the seven-course Great Books sequence, he contributes to general education through teaching courses in Bible, Greek, and the history of theology.
