Associate Professor of Italian

Contact Information

Email:
grossvog@uga.edu
Office:
214 Gilbert Hall
Office Hours:
MWF 12:15--1:15, and by appointment after 2:30
Phone Number:
(706) 351-7269
Programs:
Italian
Research Areas:
Italian Literature and Culture
Film Studies
Literary Periods

Steven Grossvogel holds a doctorate from Cornell University.  He taught as a lector at L'Universita' degli Studi di Bologna in Italy for two years, before coming to the University of Georgia.  In addition to teaching all levels of undergraduate Italian courses, he also teaches split-level (undergraduate and graduate) courses on Boccaccio, Dante, Italian Cinema, and Italian Theater.

Research Interests:

Steven Grossvogel has research interests in medieval Italian literature, especially the works of Boccaccio and Dante. He is the author of Ambiguity and Allusion in Boccaccio's Filocolo (Olschki, 1992). His articles have been published in Studi sul Boccaccio, Italiana, Il Veltro, MLN, and This Rough Magic.  He has also contributed to the Modern Language Association series volume Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio’s Decameron (MLA, 2000); Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (Routledge, 2004; enlarged and revised 2018); Boccaccio: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works (Chicago Univ. Press, 2013); and The Decameron Third Day in Perspective (Toronto Univ. Press, 2014).