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Eddie Maloney is the Executive Director of The Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) and an Associate Professor in the Department of English. He holds a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in English Literature and a Master’s Degree from Syracuse University in English and Textual Studies. As Executive Director of CNDLS, a research center on teaching and learning, he helps to define Georgetown’s strategy to advance teaching and learning practices at the University, including developing innovative approaches to technology-enhanced learning, learning analytics, and fulfilling the Jesuit mission of teaching to the whole student. As a faculty member in the Department of English, he teaches courses on modernism, postmodernism, critical and narrative theory. He has a particular interest in the works of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jorge Luis Borges, and he has published on Joyce and others, as well as on issues related to narrative theory, film studies, and hypertext fiction. He has served as the Electronic Resources Editor for the Heath Anthology of American Literature, and he is currently working on two book-length projects—one, Footnotes in Fiction, on the use of artificial paratexts in fictional narratives, and the other, Narrative Pedagogy, on the role of narrative in teaching and learning. He has co-directed the MyDante project with Professor Frank Ambrosio since its inception.
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Francesco Ciabattoni (PhD, Johns Hopkins) is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Italian Department at Georgetown University. His monograph Dante’s Journey to Polyphony (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010) is a thorough study of the role of music in Dante’s Commedia. Professor Ciabattoni teaches two courses on Dante at Georgetown University, one in English translation, the other tackling Dante’s original Italian text for majors in Italian and students with adequate preparation. He also teaches courses on Boccaccio, French and Italian love poetry, and other aspects of medieval literature. Among his research favorites are Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Pasolini, the Middle Ages, and the interplay of music and literature. With P.M. Forni he has edited The Decameron Third Day in Perspective: Volume Three of Lectura Boccaccii (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014) and is currently preparing a book on the intertextual practice among Italian song writers.
He is the founding Director of the Georgetown University “MyDante Project,” a web-based platform for personal and collaborative study of Dante’s Commedia. He is the author of Dante and Derrida: Face to Face (State University of New York Press, 2007), as well as scholarly works on Hermeneutics and interdisciplinary studies of the Italian Renaissance. He is the recipient of multiple awards for excellence in teaching at Georgetown. In October 2009, The Teaching Company released his course, "Philosophy, Religion and the Meaning of Life," a series of 36 half-hour video lectures which he created for the "Great Courses" series. From 2011 until 2016, he was Director of the interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Liberal Studies at Georgetown.
Frank Ambrosio is Professor of Philosophy and Senior Fellow, Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown University. After studies in Italian language and literature in Florence, Italy, he completed his doctoral degree at Fordham University with a specialization in contemporary European Philosophy.
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Jo Ann Moran Cruz is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University. She has also served as Professor of History and Dean of Humanities and Natural Sciences at Loyola University, New Orleans. Professor Moran Cruz is a late medieval and Renaissance historian, publishing on education and literacy in late medieval England, the clergy in late medieval England, medieval and Renaissance social mobility, popular western views of Islam, the Roman de la Rose, and Dante. She is the author of a textbook on “Medieval Worlds” and has taught and published on E.M. Forster. At Georgetown, she co-developed the team-taught introductory course “The Age of Dante” for Medieval Studies. She has taught Dante at Georgetown’s Villa la Balze where she also conducted Dante tours of the city. In 2006 she published "Dante, Purgatorio II and the Jubilee of Boniface VIII" in Dante Studies; she has a forthcoming article “Dante’s Matelda: Queen and Mother,” also in Dante Studies. Professor Moran Cruz has been invited to give lectures on Dante on several occasions at The Catholic University of America and also at Marymount University. Her most current projects are a paper on Inferno XV and the relationship between Dante and Brunetto Latini as well as a book manuscript entitled A Question of Disobedience: Letters from an Elizabethan Family.
Become familiar with the theory and practice of “Contemplative Reading” that constitutes one of the principal structural dynamics of Liberal Arts education Be able to apply the general practice of “Contemplative Reading” to Dante’s Divine Comedy Demonstrate in-depth and relatively advanced familiarity with and knowledge of Dante’s Divine Comedy , an epic poem of the highest cultural significance Begin to articulate foryourselfyour own personal convictions in response to reflection questions about human dignity, freedom, and responsibility with which the Divine Comedy inevitably confronts its readers Engage with the most fundamental goal of Liberal education, promoting the universal dignity of personhood Become acquainted with the specific contributions the Christian, Catholic and Jesuit traditions of Georgetown University bring to the promotion of human dignity
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