Kleinhenz

Christopher Kleinhenz is the Carol Mason Kirk Professor of Italian Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, and one of North America’s most distinguished experts on medieval Italian literature and culture. A former President of the American Association of Teachers of Italian and of the American Boccaccio Association, he has received the City of Genoa Medal for the Promotion of Italian in North America (1998), the Leonard Covello Educator of the Year Award (2005), the Medieval Academy of America’s Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies (2008), and the WisItalia Lifetime Achievement Award. His numerous publications include The Early Italian Sonnet: The First Century (1220–1321) (1986) and Movement and Meaning in the “Divine Comedy”: Toward an Understanding of Dante’s Processional Poetics (2005). He is editor of The Dante Encyclopedia (2000) and of Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (2004). Professor Kleinhenz is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.