Faculty Profile
James McMenamin
Associate Professor of Italian (2009)
Contact Information
on sabbatical Spring 2026
Bosler Hall
717-254-8444
Bio
Prof. McMenamin specializes in medieval and renaissance Italian literature. He has published articles on Dante, Petrarch, and Italian lyric poetry and is interested in questions concerning medieval philosophy. In the fall, Prof. McMenamin will be teaching a medieval/renaissance survey of Italian literature (IT341: The Discourse of Love), IT103 (Accelerated Italian for speakers of a Romance Language other than Italian) and IT201 (Intermediate Italian). In the spring, he will teach Dante's Divine Comedy and IT231: Reading and Writing Italian Culture.
Education
- B.A., Middlebury College, 1996
- M.A., 1997
- Laurea, Universit脿 degli Studi di Firenze, 2001
- Ph.D., Harvard University, 2008