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dcosta@bu.edu |
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358-3623 |
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353-6246 |
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Fall 2009
T 3-5
W 9-10
or by appointment |
Dennis Costa
Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature
Head of Italian Section
Education
- BA, Fordham University
- MA, Cornell University
- MPhil, PhD, Yale University
Research
Professor Costa's primary areas of interest are the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. His research centers upon Dante, the stilnovistic poets, Petrarch, patristic and medieval hermeneutics, and medieval and Renaissance philosophy and theology. He offers courses in the departments of Romance Studies, Modern Languages & Comparative Literature, and Religion (focussing on the intersections between literature and religion).
Costa has written Irenic Apocalypse: Some Uses of Apocalyptic in Dante, Petrarch and Rabelais, as well as articles on Dante, St. Bonaventure, Pico della Mirandola, Erasmus, Montaigne, Tommaso Campanella, and Christopher Smart. His latest article — on Federico Garcia Lorca's New York poems — will appear this year in the Oxford journal Literature and Theology.
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