Dr Heather Webb
Ohio State University
Heather Webb is an Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian at The Ohio State University. She received her B.A. from Middlebury College (1998) and her Ph.D. from Stanford University (2004). Heather specializes in the literary and intellectual history of medieval Italy. Her primary areas of research include Dante, early Italian lyric poetry, devotional poetry and prose, and the history of the body. Her book, entitled The Medieval Heart, is forthcoming from Yale University Press. She has published essays on Giovanni da San Gimignano’s analysis of sensory function, Catherine of Siena’s notions of the heart, and on Dante’s rime petrose. Essays on Paradiso 25 and Catherine of Siena’s typology of tears are forthcoming. While a visiting fellow at CRASSH, Heather will be working on her second book project, an examination of concepts of the beginnings and ends of life in medieval Italy.
