Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature
Rosa Amatulli, born and educated in Italy, received a BA in English/Creative Writing and a Master’s Degree in Italian Literature from Hunter College, CUNY.
She is a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where she is currently working on her dissertation, “The Politics of Humor in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso and Cervantes’ Don Quixote.” The focus of her dissertation is the encounter of classical and Renaissance philosophy (Plato and Aristotle/Bruni and Pico) with the political and ethical function of humor.
She has taught Italian at Hunter, Baruch and Queens Colleges and she currently teaches Comparative Literature at Queens College/CUNY. Some of the courses she has taught in Comparative Literature include “Great Books” 101 & 102, Literature of the Renaissance 212, Forms of Fiction 336 and Modern Literature 229 & 215. She is the author (with Rolando Pérez) of an essay on Carlo Levi in Multicultural Writers Since 1945, (Greenwood, 2004) and she has contributed biblio-biographical essays to the Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature (2005). She has also worked as a freelance Italian/English translator. She is currently completing a paper on the impact of philosophy in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso and Cervantes’ Don Quixote. She has participated at several international conferences where she has presented papers on humor, Ariosto and Cervantes.
Her research interests include Italian Renaissance and Golden Age Spanish literature, and specifically the satirical and carnivalesque genres as they impact those two very important literary traditions.
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