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          Italian professor wins national book award

          
            
              
                
                Published: November 30, 2006
              

              
                Author: Shannon  Roddel
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          

Christian Moevs, associate professor of Romance languages and literatures at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded the Howard R. Marraro Prize by the Modern Language Association (MLA) for his recent bookThe Metaphysics of Dantes ‘Comedy,in which he sheds new light on the interpretation of DantesDivine Comedy.

Published by Oxford University Press, the book explores Dantes metaphysics – his understanding of reality.Moevs argues that if we are to resolve the central problem of theComedysclaim that the status of revelation, vision or experiential record is morethan imaginative literature, then Dantes metaphysics must be recovered.Through this exploration, Moevs arrives at the conclusion that Dante believed that all of what we perceive as reality is a creation or projection of conscious being, which can only be known as oneself.

A Notre Dame faculty member since 1994, Moevs specializes in Dante, medieval Italian literature, lyric poetry and poetics, and the intersection between literature and philosophy, and serves as a faculty fellow in the Medieval Institute.He is a past recipient of Notre Dames Sheedy Award for Excellence in Teaching and Kaneb Teaching Award, as well as the Department of Romance Languages and LiteraturesJunior Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching.He earned his bachelors degree fromHarvardUniversityand his doctorate fromColumbiaUniversity.

Established in 1973, the Marraro Prize is awarded biennially for an outstanding book in the field of Italian literature or comparative literature involving Italian.This years prize also was awarded to Graziella Parati ofDartmouthCollege.The MLA will present the awards during its annual convention Dec. 28 inPhiladelphia.

* Contact: *  _Christian Moevs, 574-631-6781, moevs.1@nd.edu 

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