Yale Italian Studies Homecoming

About

Sherry Roush (Ph.D. Yale University, 1999, MA Yale University, 1996, BA University of CA, Santa Cruz, 1992) is a Liberal Arts Professor of Italian specializing in medieval and renaissance Italian literature and culture. She is the translator and editor of Lodovico Corfino: Phileto’s Story (Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies “Texts in Translation,” 2024) and Jacopo Caviceo’s Peregrino (University of Toronto Press, 2023), which was awarded a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts grant in Literary Translation and a 2020 National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research fellowship. She is the author of Speaking Spirits: Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy (University of Toronto Press, 2015) and Hermes’ Lyre: Italian Poetic Self-Commentary from Dante to Tommaso Campanella (University of Toronto Press, 2002), the editor and translator of the Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella in two volumes (The University of Chicago Press and Fabrizio Serra Editore, both 2011), and the co-editor with Cristelle Baskins of The Medieval Marriage Scene: Prudence, Passion, Policy (Arizona State University Press, 2005).