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Troy Tower

Department:
Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Title:
Lecturer

Area of Expertise

Medieval and Renaissance Italian poetry

Degrees

PhD in Italian Literature, Johns Hopkins University, 2017

MA in Italian Studies, New York University, 2009

BA in Italian Literature, New York University, 2006

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • Troy Tower, "Narrative Vitality and the Forest in the Furioso", in Walter Melion and Karl Enenkel, ed., Landscape and Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500-1700 (Brill, 2021), 451-472
  • Vittoria Colonna, Poems of Widowhood: A Bilingual Edition of the 1538 Rime, tr. and intro. by Ramie Targoff, ed. Ramie Targoff and Troy Tower (Iter, 2021)
  • Troy Tower, "Anassilla: Stampa's Poetic Ecology", in Unn Falkeid and Aileen Astorga Feng, ed., Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry (Ashgate, 2015), 185-197
  • Troy Tower, "Naming Trees in the Gerusalemme liberata", Romance Studies 31.3-4 (2013): 139-151
  • Gaspara Stampa, The Complete Poems: The 1554 Edition of the Rime, a Bilingual Edition, tr. and intro. by Jane Tylus, ed. Jane Tylus and Troy Tower (University of Chicago, 2010)
  • Troy Tower, "Suspicious Spaces in Ariosto’s Cinque canti" Inquiry 10 (2006): 18-19