Marilyn Migiel received her A.B. from Cornell University in 1975 (with an independent major in Medieval Studies) and a Ph.D. in Italian Language and Literature from Yale University in 1981 (with a dissertation on Dante's theology). After teaching at Yale for five years, she came to Cornell where she has been on the faculty since 1987. She is currently Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Studies, and a member of the graduate fields of Romance Studies, Medieval Studies, and Women's Studies.
Migiel is known primarily for her feminist readings of medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, principal among them A Rhetoric of the "Decameron" (University of Toronto Press, 2003). Her publications also include a book on Tasso (Gender and Genealogy in Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata," 1993), a volume co-edited with Juliana Schiesari (Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance, 1991), and articles on authors as various as Rinaldo d'Aquino, Dante Alighieri, Ludovico Ariosto, Veronica Franco, Grazia Deledda, and Italo Calvino.
Since her days as a Cornell undergraduate when she was designated a Lane Cooper scholar (an award "for young students of superior character, attainments and promise... who aspire to become teachers, in higher institutions of learning, of those subjects which are called the humanities"), Migiel has been firmly committed to teaching, and in particular to teaching at the undergraduate level. She is an enthusiastic supporter of the work of Cornell's J.S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines. Her commitment to teaching was recognized in 1995 when she received the Stephen and Margery Russell Award for Distinguished Teaching at Cornell.
In addition to her memberships in professional organizations such as the Modern Language Association, the American Association of Teachers of Italian, the American Association of Italian Studies, the American Boccaccio Association, and the Renaissance Society of America, Migiel is also a member and former president of Telluride Association, a not-for-profit organization that promotes educational communities that foster intellectual excellence, self-government, and public service.
|
