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THOMAS ERLING PETERSON Professor of Italian Dr. Thomas Erling Peterson has research interests in Dante, Petrarch, Tasso; 19th and 20th century Italian literature, film studies; contemporary critical theory and translation studies; and the philosophy of education. His book, The Paraphrase of an Imaginary Dialogue: The Poetics and Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini, was the winner of the 1990 NEMLA-Peter Lang Foreign Language Book Award. He is also the author of Alberto Moravia (Twayne, 1996) and The Rose in Contemporary Italian Poetry (University Press of Florida, 2000). His book, The Ethical Muse of Franco Fortini (University Press of Florida, 1997), won the 1996 SAMLA Book Award. About his most recent book, The Revolt of the Scribe in Modern Italian Literature (University of Toronto Press), Prof. Laura Whitman (Stanford) has written: "Peterson's readings of individual authors are nuanced, thoughtful and especially insightful as regards inter-textual and cultural contexts." For reviews, see [Italica] and [Annali d’Italianistica].
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