Contact
Director
Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.
Professor of Italian; Albert J. and Helen M. Ravarino Family Director of Italian and Dante Studies; and Co-editor of the Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature
Theodore Cachey is professor and director of Italian Studies at Notre Dame. He specializes in Italian Medieval and Renaissance literature. He has authored, edited and co-edited several books, including Le isole fortunate (1994); Pigafetta's First Voyage Around the World (1995, 2007); Dante Now (1995); Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land (2002), Le culture di Dante (2004), Dante and Petrarch: Anti-dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition (2009). His essays have appeared in Annali d'Italianistica, Belfagor, California Italian Studies, Intersezioni, The Italianist, Italica, The History of Cartography, Modern Language Notes, Schede umanistiche, and Rivista di letteratura italiana.
Assistant Director
David G. Lummus
Co-Director of the Center for Italian Studies and the Devers Family Program in Dante Studies
David Lummus holds a Ph.D. in Italian from Stanford University (2008) and is co-director of the Center for Italian Studies at Notre Dame. His research focuses on Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Dante, especially their Latin works. He is the author of several articles on fourteenth-century Italian literary culture and its reception. He is the author of The City of Poetry: Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy (forthcoming 2020) and the editor of The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective (forthcoming 2021). He is also the co-editor, with Martin Eisner, of A Boccaccian Renaissance: Essays on the Early Modern Impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and His Works (2019).
Contacts at Hesburgh Libraries
Tracy Bergstrom
Director, Specialized Collection Services Program, Hesburgh Libraries
Curator, Zahm Dante and Early Italian Imprints Collection
t: (574) 631-1763
f: (574) 631-7662
tbergstr@nd.edu
Sara Weber
Digital Projects Coordinator, Special Collections, Hesburgh Libraries
Web Editor, Devers Program in Dante Studies
t: (574) 631-5610
sweber@nd.edu
Devers Program in Dante Studies
331 O'Shaughnessy Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
t: (574) 631-7501
devers@nd.edu