Loren Eadie

Loren Eadie

PhD, UW-Madison

Teaching Faculty II of Italian, Director of the Italian Language Program

eadie@wisc.edu

262-4071

738 Van Hise Hall

Loren Eadie

Fall 2026 Office Hours

Mondays 1:00-2:00 pm, Thursdays 10:00-11:00 am (Caffè con Dr. Eadie), or by appointment

Biography

Primary Language

Italian

Specialties and Areas of Research Interest

Dr. Eadie’s research focuses on Italian Renaissance literature, particularly the intersections between philological studies and literary creation in the 15th Century. Other interests include queer language and imagery in Renaissance poetry, the early modern origins of the horror genre, and Italian crime.

Selected Publications

  • “Marvelous Rome: Sorrentino’s “La grande bellezza” and the Rhetoric of Ovid and Vasari on Art, Spectacle, and the Sublime,” California Italian Studies, 13(1): 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/C313162008
  • “The play’s the thing wherein I’ll show the glory of the (Heavenly) King: Medieval Spectacle in Dante’s Purgatorio” in Dante’s Volume From Alpha to Omega: Inscriptions on the Poet’s Universe, Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2021, pp. 274-294.
  • “L’arte culinaria” in Problemi di critica goldoniana, diretti da M. Pastore Stocchi e G. Pizzamiglio, vol 16. tomo 3, Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2009. pp. 111-114.