Dr. Kristen Grimes
Assistant Professor of Italian
Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Office - Bellarmine G04 B
Phone: 610-660-1815
Fax: 610-660-2160
Email: kgrimes@sju.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Courses Taught
Dr. Grimes regularly teaches First-Year Italian, Second-Year Italian, and Italian Conversation and Composition. She also teaches a variety of upper-division courses on Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, such as Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio: The Dawn of the Renaissance; The Medici Court: Poetry, Patronage and the Art of Power; Italian Journeys: from Marco Polo to Global Tourism; and The Artist and the Madman from the Renaissance to the Reformation.
Research
Dr. Grimes's teaching and research interests include:
- Italian literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (in particular Petrarch)
- Interdisciplinary relations between literary and visual traditions
- The literature and history of travel
- The history of Italian cinema
