Conferenza - Inferno Revealed. from Dante to Dan Brown

Dear students and colleagues,

You are all warmly invited to a lecture organized by the ACCENT / UCEAP Language and Culture Program on 

Popular adaptations of Dante’s Inferno
by Deborah Parker and Mark Parker
Authors of Inferno Revealed: From Dante to Dan Brown
Monday, March 17, 4:00pm
ACCENT study Center

Deborah Parker is Professor of Italian at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese (2011-13).  She is the author of Commentary and Ideology: Dante in the Renaissance (Duke UP, 2009),Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet (Cambridge UP, 2000), Michelangelo and the Art of Letter Writing (Cambridge UP, 2012) and co-author, with Mark Parker, of Inferno Revealed: From Dante to Dan Brown (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). She is the General Editor of The World of Dante (www.worldofdante.com<http://www.worldofdante.com> ) and blog, A Hymn to Intellectual Beauty: Creative Minds and Fashion (http://creativemindsandfashion.com/)


Mark Parker is Professor of English at James Madison University and the former chair of the Department. He is the author of Literary Magazines and British Romanticism (Cambridge, 2001), and he has edited the Noctes Ambrosianae. He has published two books with Deborah Parker, The DVD and the Study of Film(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and  Inferno Revealed: From Dante to Dan Brown(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Deborah