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	Guy P. Raffa Associate Professor of Italian
	Dept. of French and Italian	Spring 2008 Office Hrs: TTH 11-12:30
	HRH 3.104A	Campus mail code: B7600
	University of Texas	(512) 471-6390 / FAX: (512) 471-8492
	Austin, TX 78712	E-mail: guyr@uts.cc.utexas.edu

Teaching and Research Areas

Medieval Italian literature, with emphasis on Dante

Twentieth-century Italian literature and culture

Literature and the history and philosophy of science

Danteworlds Web Site

This web-based project delivers multimedia content--text, images, audio--to students enrolled in classes in which Dante's Divine Comedy is taught. Danteworlds was the subject of a feature story on the University of Texas Home Page for January 5-12, 2004.

Danteworlds: A Reader's Guide to the Inferno,
a book containing expanded textual content
(additional entries and study questions as well as
regional summaries and a bibliography of useful
Dante resources), is published by the
University of Chicago Press.

Divine Dialectic

Divine Dialectic: Dante's Incarnational Poetry
is published by the University of Toronto Press.

Recent Awards and Grants

Gold Award, Teaching with Technology (Innovative Instructional Technology Awards Program): Danteworlds: Purgatory and Paradise (2007)

Silver Award, Teaching with Technology (Innovative Instructional Technology Awards Program): Danteworlds: Inferno (2003)

University of Texas Faculty Research Assignment (2003)

President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award (2002)

Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Grants: Danteworlds: Inferno (2001); Purgatory and Paradise (2003)

Professional and University Service

Vice President of the Dante Society of America (2005-06)

Council member of the Dante Society of America (2003-06)

South West Representative of the American Association of Teachers of Italian: 1999-2002

Undergraduate Advisor, Italian, University of Texas at Austin: 2004-08

European Studies Director, Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin: 1999-2003

Courses Taught at UT

Spring 2008

Dante (ITC 349 / E 322 / EUS 361)

Introduction to Italian Literature: Middle Ages to 18th Century (ITL 326K)

Sample Syllabi

Italian Civilization (ITC 360 / EUS 361)

Composition and Reading in World Literature (TC 603A)

Composition and Reading in World Literature (TC 603B)

Medieval Visions and Creations (CL 381, ITL 390K, MDV 392M)

Contemporary Italian Fiction (ITL 375)

Introduction to European Studies (EUS 305)

Literature and Science (TC 357)

Order and Chaos Across Disciplines (TC 357)

Publications

Related Web Sites

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