Faculty & Staff Directory
Troy Tower
Title: Lecturer
Email: Troy.Tower@umb.edu
Department: Modern Languages Lit, Cultures
Areas of Expertise
Medieval and Renaissance Italian poetry
Degrees
PhD, Italian Literature, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
MA, Italian Studies, New York University, New York City, NY
BA, Italian Studies, New York University, New York City, NY
Professional Publications & Contributions
- Vittoria Colonna, Poems of Widowhood: A Bilingual Edition of the 1538 Rime, trans. and intro. by Ramie Targoff, eds. Ramie Targoff and Troy Tower (Iter Press/ACMRS Press, forthcoming)
- “Narrative Vitality and the Forest in the Furioso”, in Walter Melion and Karl Enenkel, eds., Landscape and Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500-1700 (Brill, forthcoming)
- 2015 “Anassilla: Stampa’s Poetic Ecology”, in Unn Falkeid and Aileen Astorga Feng, eds., Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry (Ashgate), 185-197
- 2013 “Naming Trees in the Gerusalemme liberata”, Romance Studies 31.3-4: 139-151
- 2010 Gaspara Stampa, The Complete Poems: The 1554 Edition of the Rime, a Bilingual Edition, trans. and intro. by Jane Tylus, eds. Jane Tylus and Troy Tower (University of Chicago)
- 2014 Giorgio Grassi with baukuh, “Seven Questions, One Answer”, trans. Troy Tower, San Rocco 8: 191-194
- 2013 Daniele Pisani, “A Collaboration: Paul Engelmann and Ludwig Wittgenstein”, trans. Troy Tower, San Rocco 6: 121-131