Valerio Cappozzo

Valerio Cappozzo is Associate Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Mississippi. His research focuses mainly on medieval and modern poetry, in which fields he has published numerous scholarly articles, edited books, and book chapters. His monograph called The Medieval Dream Dictionary. The Somniale Danielis in Literary Manuscripts (Leo. S. Olschki Editore, Florence 2018) presents an edition of the widely circulated dream manual from the ninth century to 1550. He is also co-author with Jacques Dalarun and Sean Field of A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Life of Clare of Rimini, which is now in press with University of Pennsylvania Press. He has also edited volumes on Carlo Michelstaedter, Storia e storiografia di Carlo Michelstaedter (University of Mississippi, 2017), on Giorgio Bassani and on the Italian Risorgimento. He is the President of the Associazione Amici di Leonardo Sciascia, the vice-President of the American Boccaccio Association, and co-Editor-in-Chief of the scholarly journal Annali d’Italianistica.