Contact Information: Office: Wilson 121 Phone: 4-4654 E-mail: dwp7k@virginia.edu Mail: P.O. Box 400777 Responsibilities: Director, Italian Graduate Program; Graduate Advisor; Ombudsman; Affirmative Action Coordinator.

DEBORAH PARKER is Professor of Italian. She holds a BA from the University of Toronto (1976) and an MA and PhD from Harvard (1985). Professor Parker has written books on Dante's Renaissance commentators and Bronzino's poetry and edited a collection of articles on artistic representations of Dante in the Renaissance. She has authored more than twenty articles on Umberto Eco, Dante, Renaissance printing practices, medieval and Renaissance commentaries, and artist-poets of the Renaissance. Professor Parker has edited two websites--The World of Dante: A Hypermedia Archive for the Study of the Inferno and the Italian Language Resource Site. Special interests include artistic and literary interrelations in the Renaissance, Medicean Florence, Petrarchism, Dante studies, and the use of computer technology in the study of film and the humanities. Professor Parker has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Villa I Tatti - The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The Folger Shakespeare Library, the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and the Faculty Senate of the University of Virginia. In recent years she has given talks at Harvard, Brown, Vassar, Cornell, Princeton, the University of Toronto, Johns Hopkins University, Trinity College, and the University of Tours. She is currently working on a book on Michelangelo's letters.

Selected publications:

The DVD Revolution in Film (forthcoming with Duke University Press).

Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet (Cambridge, 2000).

Visibile parlare: Dante and the Art of the Italian Renaissance. Lectura Dantis, 1998.

Commentary and Ideology: Dante in the Renaissance (Duke, 1993)

The World of Dante: A Hypermedia Archive for the Study of the Inferno

Italian Language Resource Site

"Umberto Eco," forthcoming in the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

"Directors and DVD Commentary: The Specifics of Intention,"
co-authored with Mark Parker, forthcoming in the Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

"Texte et sous-texte: Le DVD catalyseur et support d'un nouveau
texte," co-authored with Mark Parker, forthcoming in Positif.

"Bronzino's Eleonora da Toledo and Her Son Giovanni," forthcoming in the Folio Society Book of the 100 Greatest Portraits.

"The Role of Letters in Biographies of Michelangelo," forthcoming in
Renaissance Quarterly.

"Bronzino and the Diligence of Art," Artibus et Historiae 49 (2004):1-14.

"The Poetry of Patronage: Bronzino and the Medici," Renaissance
Studies 17 (2003):230-45.

"Dante giocoso: Bronzino's Burlesque of the Commedia," Quaderni
d'italianistica 22 (2001): 77-101.

"The World of Dante: A Hypermedia Archive for the Study of the Inferno," Oxford Journal of Literary and Linguistic Computing (November 2001).

"A Visible Literary History: Giorgio Vasari's Portrait of Six Tuscan Poets," in Visibile Parlare: Dante and the Art of the Italian Renaissance. Lectura Dantis 22-23 (1998):45-62

"Il libro come forma espressiva: La stampa della Commedia nel Rinascimento," in Studies for Dante: Essays in Honor of Dante Della Terza (Rome: Cadmo, 1998):135-143.

"Toward a Reading of Bronzino's Poetry," Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997):1011-1044.

"Interpreting the Commentary Tradition to Dante's Comedy" in Dante, Ed. Amilcare Iannucci (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997).

"Women in the Book Trade in Italy, 1475-1620," Renaissance Quarterly 49 (1996):509-541.