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V. Stanley Benfell, Ph.D.Associate Professor
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1994 PhD New York University
1993 Joined BYU faculty
1990 MA New York University
1987 BA Brigham Young University
Medieval and Renaissance Literature (French, Italian, and English).
“Tasso’s God: Narrative Authority in the Gerusalemme Liberata.” Modern Philology 97 (1999): 173-94.
“Biblical Truth in the Examination Cantos of Dante's Paradiso.” Dante Studies 115 (1997): 89-109.
“‘Uno sarà il fine’: Tasso’s Domestication of Allegory,” Quaderni d’italianistica 18 (1997): 205-19.
“Prophetic Madness: The Bible in Inferno XIX.” MLN 110 (1995): 145-63.
“Nimrod, the Ascent to Heaven, and Dante's ‘ovra inconsummabile.’” Dante Studies 110 (1992): 77-93.
Contributions to The Dante Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Lansing. New York: Garland, 2000.
Currently working on a book-length study of Dante's
use of the Bible in the Comedy.
American Comparative Literature Association
Dante Society of America
Renaissance Society of America
Medieval Academy of America
Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association