Danielle Callegari

Danielle Callegari (Ph.D., New York University) is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian at Dartmouth College and Communications Director for the Dante Society of America. Her teaching and research focus on premodern Italian literature and food and beverage studies. She has published on a variety of subjects including Dante, early modern women's writing and religion, and Italian food and politics from the premodern to the contemporary. Her first monograph, "Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy," was published with Amsterdam University Press in 2022, and her new monograph "A Bite-Sized History of Italy" is forthcoming with The New Press (2026). She has two further book projects in development: the first on the long history of the Italian cookbook and its politics beginning with Frederick II's 13th-century Liber de coquina; the second on Italian wine and questions of authenticity, identity, and sustainability, in conversation with the work of Italian director and journalist Mario Soldati.