Justin Steinberg

Professor Steinberg joined the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures faculty in 2003. His scholarship focuses on medieval Italian literature, especially on Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, and the early lyric. Related interests include manuscript culture/material philology, reception studies, the connections between legal and literary culture, and medieval political theory. 

Currently, he is working on theological/legal/literary conceptions of fictio and on a comparative study of poetic justice, a sort of pre- and post-history of Dante’s contrapasso, entitled “Eye for an Eye: Poetic Justice from Aeschylus to Old Boy.”