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Theodore Cachey
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Ravarino Family Director of the William and Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1986
Theodore.Cachey.1@nd.edu

Areas of Recent Teaching
· Dante and Petrarch
· Travel narratives

Areas of Recent Research
· Italian literary history and historiography of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
· Literature and history of travel

Recent Honors and Awards
· Executive Director, ItalNet
· Vice-President of the International Dante Seminar (IDS)
· Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies (2003), for Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land (University of Notre Dame, 1993)
· Founder and Co-editor (with Christian Moevs) of the William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies

Recent Publications
·"Petrarch's Cartographic Writing" in Medieval and Renaissance Humanism: Rhetoric, Representation, and Reform, ed. S. Gersh and B. Roest, (Brill), 2003.
·"The End of the Journey: from Gilgamesh to Le cittá invisibili" in Annali d'italianistica 21 (2003): Hodeoporics Revisited/Ritorno all'odeporica, ed. L. Monga: 67-93.
·"Italy and the Invention of America." The New Centennial Review. Early Modernities, 2.1 (Spring, 2002), 17-32.
·"Dante's Journey Between Truth and Fiction: Geryon Revisited." Atti del Seminario Dantesco Internazionale 2000. Ed. M. Picone. (Cesati , 2001), 75-92.
·"L'odissea del Dante americano." Belfagor: rassegna di varia umanità 15: 3-31 (May 2000): 328-335.

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