H. Wayne Storey
• Professor of Italian
• Director, Medieval Studies
Institute
Office: Ballantine Hall
609
Office phone: 855-7035
Email: hstorey
@indiana.edu
or mestdir @indiana.edu
Research areas:
Medieval and Renaissance Italian and Old Occitan, book history, manuscript and material studies, textual editing
Education:
- PhD, Columbia University, 1983
- MA, Brown University, 1975
- BA with honors, Texas Tech University, 1973
Background:
I teach courses and write on early Italian and Old Occitan literature, history and manuscript culture, textual editing, history of the book. I am especially known for my critical and editorial work on Petrarch, the notion and application of ‘visual poetics’ in medieval texts, the ‘textual cultures’ of medieval and Renaissance Italy and Occitania, and my essays on Dante, Guittone d’Arezzo, and Monte Andrea. Series Editor of “Textual Cultures: Theory and Praxis” (Indiana University Press), I am the Editor-in-Chief of Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation (formerly TEXT [Society for Textual Scholarship]) and Associate Editor of Medioevo letterario d’Italia, Dante Studies, Heliotropia, and Letteratura Italiana Antica.
Selected awards:
- American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
- Bibliographical Society of America Award
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Courses recently taught:
- Medieval Provence: the Cultures of X–XV-century Southern France
- Identity in Medieval Italy (225-1375)
- Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
- Translating Dante’s Commedia
- Dante’s World
- Dante’s Divina Commedia
- The Italian Novella: Cavalca to Petrignani
- Manuscript Culture
- From Manuscript to Early Printed Books
- Cultural Transitions in 14th-century Italy
- Literary and Material Cultures in Occitania and Italy (1150-1300)
- Boccaccio: Copyist and Cultural Entrepreneur
- Dante’s Materials and Production I and II
- Petrarch’s Materials: The Making of the Fragmenta
- From Manuscript to Early Printed Book: Venice and European Traditions
- Literary Politics: Medieval Italian Literature
Publication highlights:
Books
Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation, Teodolinda Barolini and H. Wayne Storey. Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2007.
Francesco Petrarca, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta: Facsimile del codice autografo Vaticano Latino 3195, edited with commentary by Gino Belloni, Furio Brugnolo, H. Wayne Storey and Stefano Zamponi, “Itinera Erudita, 5”. Padova and Roma: Antenore, 2003-2004.
Transcription and Visual Poetics in the Early Italian Lyric. New York: Garland Press, 1993.
Articles
“Canzoniere e Petrarchismo: un paradigma di orientamento formale e materiale”, in Il Petrarchismo. Un modello di poesia per l’Europa, ed. Loredana Chines, Vol. 1: 291-310. Rome: Bulzoni, 2007.
“Following Instructions: Remaking Dante’s Vita Nova in the Fourteenth Century”, in Medieval Constructions in Gender and Identity: Essays in Honor of Joan M. Ferrante, ed. T. Barolini, 117-32. Tempe: MRTS, 2005.
“Cultural crisis and material innovation: the Italian manuscript in the XIVth century”, Revue Belge de Philologie e d’Histoire 83 (2005): 869-86.
“Canto XXXII: The Parallel Histories”, Lectura Dantis, Purgatorio: a Canto-by-Canto Commentary, eds. Allen Mandelbaum and Charles Ross, pp. 360-77. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2008.
“Di libello in libro: problemi materiali nella poetica di Monte Andrea e Dante”, in Da Guido Guinizzelli a Dante. Nuove prospettive sulla lirica del Duecento, a cura di F. Brugnolo e G. Peron. Padova: Poligrafo, 2004, pp. 271-90.
“The Early Editorial Forms of Dante’s Lyrics: 1287–1362”, in Dante for the New Millennium (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies), 16-43. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003.
“Sulle orme di Guittone: i programmi grafico-visivi del codice BNCF Banco Rari 217”, in Studi vari di Lingua e Letteratura italiane in onore di Giuseppe Velli, 93-105. Milano: Cisalpino (Istituto Editoriale Universitario), 2000.
