Professor Steinberg joined the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures faculty in 2003. Previously he was the Devers Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. His scholarship focuses on medieval Italian literature, especially on Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, the early lyric, manuscript culture, and literary historiography. His interests include the intersection of legal and literary culture and the history of the book.

His recent book Accounting for Dante: Urban Readers and Writers in Late Medieval Italy (Notre Dame: Notre Dame UP, 2007) won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Manuscript in Italian Studies awarded by the Modern Language Association (MLA). He has also published articles on the Compiuta donzella (the first female poet of Italian literature), Dante's dreams in the Vita Nuova, and Petrarch's uncollected poems. He is currently writing a book about Dante and the law.

Professor Steinberg is on leave for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Education

• PhD University of Minnesota, 2000
• BA University of California, Berkeley, 1991

Awards, Honors, and Professional Experience

• ACLS Fellowship, 2009-2010
• MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literature, 2005
• Franke Institute for the Humanities Fellow, University of Chicago, 2005-2006
• Fulbright-Hayes Grant for research in Italy, 1996-1997

Selected Courses Taught

• Dante's Divine Comedy
• Dante e i suoi rivali
• Poeti del Duecento
• The Making and the Unmaking of Petrarch's Canzoniere
• Boccaccio minore
• Boccaccio's Decameron