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Eleonora Stoppino is an Associate Professor and Interim Head in the Department of French & Italian at the University of Illinois. Her research focuses on literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period, with specific concentrations in epic romance and Early Modern travel narratives. She conducts comparative studies of texts within the geographic areas of the Mediterranean, including Italy, Provence, France, Spain, and Catalonia. Stoppino has published articles on authors such as Boccaccio, Dante, Ariosto, and Tasso, delving into themes of the Italian epic tradition and medieval conduct literature. Her book, 'Genealogies of Fiction: Women Warriors and the Dynastic Imagination in Orlando Furioso,' published by Fordham University Press in 2011, explores intersections of epic, gender, and genealogy in the work of Ludovico Ariosto. She is currently working on a book examining animals and education in medieval and Early Modern literature.
University of Illinois • Urbana, IL
Teaching and conducting research in the Department of French & Italian.
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