Loren Eadie
Credentials: PhD, UW-Madison
Position title: Teaching Faculty II of Italian, Director of the Italian Language Program
Email: eadie@wisc.edu
Phone: 262-4071
Address:
738 Van Hise Hall
- Fall 2025 Office Hours
- Please contact for appointment
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.