Peter Bondanella

Distinguished Professor
of Comparative Literature and Italian

Department of French and Italian
Ballantine Hall 642
1020 East Kirkwood Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405
(812) 855-3127
bondanel@indiana.edu

Research Interests

Renaissance and modern literature; comparative literature and literary theory; Italian cinema; Hollywood images of Italian Americans.

Fellowships and Honors

• Indiana University Distinguished Research Lecturer, 2005-6
• President and Vice President, American Association for Italian Studies
• Mellon Visiting Professor, Tulane University
• Fellow, Australian National Humanities Centre
• Promotion to Distinguished rank, Indiana University
• Senior Fellow, American Council of Learned Socieites
• Senior Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities
• Ailsa Mellon Bruce Bruce Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (declined)
• Distinguished Service Award, Circolo Culturale Italiano of the University of South Florida
• Open Fellow, Lilly Foundation
• Younger Humanist Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities

Book Awards

• Agnelli Foundation Award for Best Book in Italian Studies for The Cinema of Federico Fellini (1992)
• Pulitzer Prize Nomination and History Book Club Selection for The Eternal City: Roman Images in the Modern World (1987)
• President’s Book Award of the American Association for Italian Studies for Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present (1983, first edition)

Major Publications

Books, editions and translations, and contributions to books devoted to Italian cinema, Italian and comparative literature, and the history of ideas

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Last updated: 07-Feb-2006
Comments: Nancy Stoute
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