Humberto is a PhD candidate in Italian at New York University, where he is writing a dissertation entitled “The Unrepentant Poet: The Penitential Thread of Petrarch's 'Rerum vulgarium fragmenta'” under the direction of Virginia Cox. He specializes in medieval Italian literature, particularly Dante’s Commedia and Petrarch’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, and in the Italian lyric from its origins in the Occitan tradition to its proliferation during the 16th century. He has given papers on Dante and...
Humberto is a PhD candidate in Italian at New York University, where he is writing a dissertation entitled “The Unrepentant Poet: The Penitential Thread of Petrarch's 'Rerum vulgarium fragmenta'” under the direction of Virginia Cox. He specializes in medieval Italian literature, particularly Dante’s Commedia and Petrarch’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, and in the Italian lyric from its origins in the Occitan tradition to its proliferation during the 16th century. He has given papers on Dante and Boccaccio at the annual meetings of the Texas Medieval Society, the Northeastern Modern Language Association, the American Association for Italian Studies, and the American Comparative Literature Association, and will present his research on the Occitan alba at the 2018 conference of the Modern Language Association. He has held faculty appointments at The Ohio State University, the University of North Texas, and Baylor University, and is currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University. He holds a BM in Music Performance magna cum laude from Texas Christian University, an MA in Italian Studies from The Ohio State University, and an MA in Italian Language and Literature from Yale University.
