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You are cordially invited to join the Department of Transnational Italian Studies for an event in honor of Nancy Vickers, President Emerita and Professor of Italian at ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï.

President Vickers will share some brief remarks on Dante's Purgatorio by drawing on her groundbreaking studies in the field and then will engage in a conversation on Dante with the students from Professor Luca Zipoli's class on Dante's Divine Comedy (ITALB207).

A reception in honor of President Vickers will follow between 6-7 p.m. in the Cloisters. In case of rain, meet in the Quita Woodward Room.

This event is co-sponsored by the President's Office and is open to the broad BMC community and to anyone interested.

Contact lzipoli@brynmawr.edu for more information about the event.

Nancy J. Vickers is both President Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Italian at ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï, where she served from 1997 to 2008. She received her B.A. degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1967 and her Ph.D. degree from Yale University in 1976. Prior to joining ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï, she previously taught at Dartmouth and at the University of Southern California. Vickers is a scholar in the fields of literary and cultural studies, and her interests range from Dante to Renaissance poetry to the transformations of the lyric genre as a result of changing technologies. She is the author of a broad array of articles and the co-editor of multiple volumes, including "Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe" and "A New History of French Literature". From 2009 to 2014, she was President of the .