Julia Conaway Bondanella

Professor of French and Italian

Research Interests

Medieval and Renaissance literature, comparative literature, history of ideas, Petrarchism, translation.

Academic Honors and Positions

• Assistant Chair for Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2001 to 2002
• Associate Dean, IU Honors College, 2001
• Professor, Department of French & Italian, 1998 to present
• President, National Collegiate Honors Council, 1994
• Vice President, National Collegiate Honors Council, 1993
• Associate Director, IU Honors College, 1983 to 2001
• Director, Bologna Cooperative Studies Program, 1993-94
• Student Choice Award for Outstanding Faculty, 1988
• Executive Secretary, American Association for Italian Studies, 1981-87
• Founding Editor, Il Gonfaloniere (Newsletter of the American Association for Italian Studies, 1981-83)
• Coordinator, IU Freshman Honors Seminars, 1974-2001

Major Publications

• The Paradiso, Dante Alighieri. Introduction and notes by Peter and Julia Bondanella. Barnes & Noble Classics Series, 2006.
• The Purgatorio, Dante Alighieri. Introduction and notes by Peter and Julia Bondanella. Barnes & Noble Classics Series, 2005.
• The Inferno, Dante Alighieri . The Longfellow Translation. Introduction and notes by Peter and Julia Bondanella. Barnes & Noble, 2003. Hardcover edition.
• Benvenuto Cellini. My Life. Edited and translated with Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Niccolò Machiavelli. Discourses on Livy. Edited and translated with Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Carlo Ridolfi. The Life of Titian. Translated with Peter Bondanella and edited with Bruce Cole, Jody Shiffman and Peter Bondanella. Penn State University Press, 1996.
• The Cassell Dictionary of Italian Literature: Second Revised Edition. Edited with Peter Bondanella and Jody Shiffman. Cassell, 1996.
• Giorgio Vasari. The Lives of the Artists. Translated and edited with Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Rousseau’s Political Writings: A Norton Critical Edition. Translator. Co-edited with Alan Ritter. Norton, 1988.
• The Italian Renaissance Reader. Editor. Co-translated with Mark Musa. New American Library, 1987.
• The MacMillan Dictionary of Italian Literature. Edited with Peter Bondanella. MacMillan, 1979.
• Petrarch’s Visions and their Renaissance Analogues. José Porrúa Turanzas, 1978

Contributions to books:

• Pietro Perugino: Master of the Italian Renaissance. Grand Rapids Art Museum and Rizzoli, 1997.
• European Writers: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Scribner’s, 1983.
• Francis Petrarch, Six Centuries Later: A Symposium. University of North Carolina Press, 1975.

Last updated: June 28, 2004
Comments: Nancy Stoute
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