Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

	Kristen Grimes
	Assistant Professor of Italian
	Office: Bellarmine G04B
	E-mail: kgrimes@sju.edu
	Tel: 610-660-1815
	Fax: 610-660-2160

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.

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