Laura F. DiNardo

Laura DiNardo is a Core Lecturer in the Department of Italian at Columbia University.

She received her B.A. in Linguistics magna cum laude, with distinction in the major, from Yale University, and her M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. Her research examines medieval and contemporary approaches to the study of philosophy of language in relation to the works of Dante. Her dissertation “Dante, Philosopher of Language: Performing Pragmatics and Semantics in the Commedia” utilized analytic philosophical methods to fully excavate the poet’s enactment of a language theory in the text.

She has taught Literature Humanities as a Core Curriculum Preceptor and now as a Core Lecturer at Columbia University, as well as all levels of Italian in New York and abroad. Laura completed the Advanced Track of the Teaching Development Program with Columbia’s Center for Teaching and Learning as part of her pedagogical training and was also awarded a variety of teaching fellowship, including that of Lead Teaching Fellow, Senior Lead Teaching Fellow, Teaching Consultant, and Senior Teaching Consultant during her Ph.D.

Laura serves as Research Assistant to Professor Teodolinda Barolini and as Assistant Managing Editor of Digital Dante. She is a member of the Dante Society of America, the Medieval Academy of America, and the Modern Language Association.