Alice Vitiello

Alice Ours Vitiello holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. In all of her work, she strives to address the question: what does it mean to live a good life? What are our duties as human beings, and how can we fulfill them? How can we leave the world a better place than it was when we found it? To this end, her field of study has run the gamut from Medieval Italian poetry to modern warfare; from Aristotle's 'Ethics' to the Kristevian Chora; from Augustine's 'Confessions' and Aquinas' 'Summa Theologica' to the works of Thich Nhat Hanh. Through it all, the common thread is a constant engagement with the question of how we can be better, do better, contribute purposefully to our world, and find meaning even in the mundane.

Alice has received numerous academic awards and honors for both teaching and writing at the University of Virginia, University of Pennsylvania, and Universitą per Stranieri di Siena, and she has delivered conference papers at all of the above as well as Harvard University. She is an All-American and Academic All-American snowboarder, mom, dog lover, stand-up-paddleboarder, boxing enthusiast, passionate supporter of the United States military, and author of the Cleveland Beauty Examiner blog at Examiner.com.