Heather Webb (PhD Stanford 2004) specialises in medieval Italian literature and culture with a particular interest in poetry, theology, philosophy, and visual culture. She is the author of听The Medieval Heart听(Yale, 2010),听Dante鈥檚 Persons: An Ethics of the Transhuman听(Oxford University Press, 2016), and Dante, Artist of Gesture (Oxford University Press, September 2022). With George Corbett, she is editor of听Vertical Readings in Dante鈥檚 Comedy, 3 vols (Open Book Publishers, 2015, 2016, 2017). With Pierpaolo Antonello, she is editor of Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: Ren茅 Girard and Literary Criticism (Michigan State Press, 2015).听She is Senior Editor of Italian Studies for pre-1700 material.听
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- Dante Studies
- Catherine of Siena
- Medieval Women Religious
- Boccaccio Studies
- Early Italian Lyric Poetry
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Illustrations of the听Comedy
- Medieval prayer manuals and preachers鈥� manuals
- History of Emotions/Affects
- Visual cultures in conversation with textual cultures
- Bodies and embodiment; gestures and kinesis
- Transcultural responses to Dante and the Italian Middle Ages
- Dante's Vita nova: A Collaborative Reading听 (co-edited volume)
- Affect/Sensation/Emotion in Medieval France and Italy (research group)
Selected published works
Dante, Artist of Gesture (Oxford University Press, September 2022)
Dante's Persons: An Ethics of the Transhuman听(Oxford University Press, 2016)听
The Medieval Heart听(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010).听 241 pp.听 ISBN: 978-0-300-15393- 4.听
Vertical Readings in Dante鈥檚听Comedy, ed. with George Corbett (in three volumes) (海角社区: Open Book Publishers, 2015, 2016, 2017).听
Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: Ren茅 Girard and Literary Criticism, ed. with Pierpaolo Antonello听(East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2015).听
鈥楶luralit脿, azione e diletto in Dante e Arendt鈥�, in Rivista di letteratura italiana, xxxix, 3, 2021, pp. 33-43.
鈥楲a gestualit脿 della richiesta in Purgatorio V e VI: Coreografie classiche e cristiane a confronto鈥� Italianistica 芦Italianistica. Rivista di letteratura italiana禄, 1, (2021), 169-183.
鈥楥orporealities in Italian Studies鈥�, with Derek Duncan, Italian Studies, 75:2, (2020), 176-193.
鈥楤otticelli鈥檚 Illustrations of Dante鈥檚听Paradiso: The Construction of Conjoined Vision,鈥� I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 22, no. 2 (Fall 2019): 187-208.
鈥業l rossore profetico鈥� in听Dante e il profetismo, Giuseppe Ledda, ed. (Ravenna: Centro Dantesco dei Frati Minori Conventuali) 2019, 69-83.听 听听
鈥楶ostures of Penitence in Dante鈥檚听Purgatorio鈥�,听Dante Studies听CXXXI (2013), 219-236.
鈥楾hree Paths in One Journey鈥�, with George Corbett,听L鈥橝lighieri, 41 (2013), 63-81.
鈥楶ower Differentials, Unreliable Models, and Homoerotic Desire in the Commedia鈥�,听Italian Studies, 68.1 (2013), 17-35.
鈥業nferno from a Purgatorial (and Paradisiacal) Perspective鈥�,听Dante鈥檚 Inferno, ed. by Patrick Hunt (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2012), 49-62.
鈥楧ante鈥檚 Definition of Life鈥�,听Dante Studies, 129 (2011), 47-62.
鈥楧eceit, Desire, and Conversion in Girard and Dante鈥�,听Religion and Literature. Special issue: 鈥楧eceit, Desire and the Novel 50 Years Later: The Religious Dimension鈥�, ed. by Ann W. Astell and Justin Jackson, 43.3 (2011), 200-207.
鈥樷�淟acrime cordiali鈥�: Catherine of Siena and the Value of Tears鈥�,听A Companion to Catherine of Siena, ed. by George Ferzoco, Beverly Kienzle, Carolyn Muessig (Leiden: 听Brill, 2011) 99-112.
鈥楥atherine of Siena鈥檚 Heart鈥�,听Speculum, 80.3 (2005), 802-817.听Reprinted in听Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, vol. 116, (Farmington Hills: Cengage Gale, 2010).
