Florida SU
Biographical Sketch: Elizabeth Coggeshall is Assistant Professor of Italian in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University. She specializes in the literature of the Due- and Trecento, with a particular focus on Dante, and her research centers on the intersections of literature, ethics, and cultural identity; medievalism and popular culture; and the transmedia reception of Dante’s works. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the strategic use of the language of friendship in Dante’s Italy. She is also the co-editor (with Arielle Saiber) of the site Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture (https://research.bowdoin.edu/dante-today), which is the subject of her presentation for the Innovation Room.