Kristina Marie Olson

Articles and Book Chapters (peer-reviewed)

1. “The Dante Code: Dante’s Inferno in Mass Market Literature,” In Dante Alive, eds. Francesco Ciabattoni and Simone Marchesi (in progress).
2. “Family Separation in Hell: Paternal Grief in Dante.” For a special edition of Forum Italicum in honor of Dante in 2021, eds. Rachel Jacoff and Lino Pertile (in progress).
3. “’Le triste che lasciaron l’ago, / la spuola e ’l fuso’: Diviners, Weavers, and the Transgender Women and Men of Inferno 20,” for a special edition, "Free Will and Subjective Agency of Women in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature," eds. Catherine Adoyo and Francesco Ciabattoni (in progress).
4. “Dante's Migrant Purgatory: Exile, Refugees, and the Case of Ulysses.” In In Transit: Arts of Migration around Europe, ed. Helen Solterer (in progress).
5. “’Maintaining Neutrality in a Period of Moral Crisis’: The Appropriation of Inferno 3 from JFK to Martha Nussbaum.” In Dante Beyond Borders, ed. Nick Havely (under review).
6. “Dante in a Global World: Sandow Birk’s Divine Comedy.” In Uncharted Dante, ed. Lucia Wolf, Bucknell University Press (forthcoming, 2020).
7. “Lectura boccaccii, 4.5: Lisabetta da Messina.” In Decameron Day Four in Perspective, ed. Michael Sherberg, University of Toronto Press (forthcoming, 2020).
8. “Conceptions of Women and Gender in the Comedy.” In Approaches to Teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy, second edition. Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Edited by Christopher Kleinhenz and Kristina Olson. New York: Modern Language Association, 2020.
9. “Legacies of Greed and Liberality: Angevin Rulers in Dante and Boccaccio,” Studi sul Boccaccio XLVII (2019): 181-201.
10. “The Ethical and Sartorial Geography of the Far East: Tartar Textiles in Boccaccio’s Decameron and Esposizioni,” Le Tre Corone. Rivista internazionale di studi su Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio VI (2019):125-139.
11. “Shoes, Gowns, and Turncoats: Reconsidering Cacciaguida’s History of Florentine Fashion and Politics,” Dante Studies: The Annual Publication of the Dante Society of America 134 (2016): 26-47.
12. “Uncovering the Historical Body of Florence: Dante, Boccaccio and Sumptuary Legislation,” Italian Culture 33:1 (March 2015): 1-15.
13. “Dante’s Urban American Vernacular: Sandow Birk’s Divine Comedy.” Special Edition: “New Voices in Dante Criticism,” Dante Studies: The Annual Publication of the Dante Society of America 131 (2013): 143-169.
14. “The Language of Women as Written by Men: Dante, Boccaccio, and Gendered Histories of the Vernacular,” Heliotropia 8-9 (2011-12, http://www.heliotropia.org/08-09/olson.pdf) Reprinted in Heliotropia 700/10: A Boccaccio Anniversary Volume (LED, 2013), pp. 217-236.
15. “Resurrecting Dante’s Florence: Figural Realism in the Decameron and the Esposizioni,” Modern Language Notes 124:1 (January 2009): 45-65.
16. “’Concivis meus’: Petrarch’s Rerum memorandarum libri 2.60, Boccaccio’s Decameron 6.9, and the Specter of Dino del Garbo,” Annali d’Italianistica 24 (2005): 375-80.

Short Essays and Translations

1. “Worse than Dante’s Hell: Parents, Children and Pain at the Border,” Dante Notes, September 28, 2018   (https://www.dantesociety.org/node/132).
2. “Selected Illustrations from Birk’s Comedy.” Birk Illustrations, Digital Dante. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, 2017. (https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/image/birk-illustrations/inferno/)
3. Selected poetry from Amelia Rosselli’s Documento. Published in the Italian Poetry Review, volume 4 (Società editrice fiorentina, 2009).

Reviews and Review Articles

1. Review of Sherry Roush, Speaking Spirits: Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy (University of Toronto Press, 2015). Speculum 92:2 (April 2017): 580-81.
2. Review of Boccaccio: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works, edited by Victoria Kirkham, Michael Sherberg and Janet Levarie Smarr (University of Chicago Press, 2013). Modern Philology 113:4 (May 2016).
3. Review of Juliann Vitullo and Diane Wolfthal, eds., Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Ashgate Publishing Company, 2010), in Annali d’Italianista 30 (2012): 509-511.
4. Review of Tobias Foster Gittes, Boccaccio’s Naked Muse: Eros, Culture, and the Mythopoeic Imagination (University of Toronto Press, 2007) in Heliotropia, 6:1-2 (2009).
5. Review of Olivia Holmes, Dante’s Two Beloveds (Yale University Press, 2007) in The Medieval Review, July 1, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.baj9928.0907.001.
6. Review article of Claire Honess, From Florence to the Heavenly City: The Poetry of Citizenship in Dante (Legenda, 2006) in Symposium 61:3 (Fall 2007): 211-216.