Laura Ingallinella

Laura is a literary historian who focuses on late medieval and Renaissance literature across Italy and France. An Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Wellesley College, she specializes in cross-regional cultural exchanges between scribes and readers interested in translating, copying, and owning texts that were important to their communities. At Wellesley, she teaches Dante's "Divine Comedy" and a number of classes on medieval and early modern literature. She is currently completing her first monograph, entitled "Translating Sainthood: Making Vernacular Collections of Saints’ Lives (1200-1500)." She earned her Ph.D. at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy.