 | David Louis Quint |
David Louis Quint, newly named as Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature, is a specialist in European Renaissance literature and culture.
Quint is chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and a former chair of the Renaissance Studies Graduate Program. His fields of study include classical and Renaissance heroic poetry and their influence on the epics of Milton and Spenser, Renaissance drama, and the literature and legacy of Italian humanism. His courses examine Renaissance literature and art within the era's intellectual, social and political contexts, and he is particularly interested in the larger cultural meanings vested in literary and generic forms.
He is the author of "Origin and Originality in Renaissance Literature: Versions of the Source," "Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton," "Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy" and, most recently, "Cervantes's Novel of Modern Times: A New Reading of 'Don Quijote.'" He translated and wrote the introductions to "The Stanze of Angelo Poliziano" and Ludovico Ariosto's "Cinque Canti (Five Cantos)," and he is co-editor (with Patricia Parker) of a volume of essays titled "Literary Theory and Renaissance Texts." His essays on Virgil, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Bruni, Castiglione, Flaubert and Cervantes have been published in numerous books and journals. Quint is currently working on a critical study of "Paradise Lost" as well as a book examining the dynamics of aristocracy and aristocratic identity in European culture during the 16th and 17th centuries. He is also preparing an edition of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra."
Quint holds a B.A. (1971) and a Ph.D. (1976) from Yale. He served for 15 years on the faculty of Princeton University, rising in the ranks from lecturer to full professor, before returning to Yale in 1991 as professor of comparative literature and English. He was appointed as the George M. Bodman Professor of English and Comparative Literature in 1996.
He has received several awards and honors, including a Danforth Graduate Fellowship; a Fulbright-Hays Traveling Fellowship to Italy; a fellowship to the Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies; and four grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He also received the William Nelson Prize from Renaissance Quarterly and the James Holly Hanford Award from the Milton Society of America. He is on the editorial boards of the journals Comparative Literature, Modern Language Quarterly, I Tatti Studies and Morgana.
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David Louis Quint named Sterling
Professor of Comparative Literature
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