Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin

Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin earned a Ph.D. in Italian Studies and graduate certificate in Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies from The University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include Early Modern Intellectual History, Mediterranean Studies, Paleography, Religious Studies, Second Language Acquisition and Development, and Translation Studies. Before coming to Penn State, he taught Italian language, literature, and culture at Temple University, St. John’s University, The University of Pennsylvania, and The Curtis Institute of Music. At Penn State, he is the current faculty advisor to the Italian Student Society and director of the Todi, Italy Summer Program.

Publications:

• “Un neomartire ortodosso nel teatro gesuitico: il caso interconfessionale di Markos Kyriakopoulos,” Rivista di storia del cristianesimo 18.2 (2021): 441-470.
• “Utopian Redemption and the Plurality of Worlds: Tommaso Campanella and Cyrano de Bergerac,” Rinascimento 59 (2019): 427-446.
• “Che i matti dicano spropositi.’ A Discussion of Cometary Theory and Superstition in Seventeenth Century Italy,” Nuncius 32.1 (2017): 85-110.

Translations:

Books

• Irene Fosi, Inquisition, Conversion, and Foreigners in Baroque Rome, translated by Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin (Brill, 2021)

Articles & Essays

• Gianna Manzini, “Fashion is a Serious Business,” translated by Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin, in Eugenia Paulicelli, Fashion under Fascism. Beyond the Black Shirt (Bloomsbury, 2024).
• Gabriella Zarri, “The Princess Nun: The Familiar Letters of Suor Eleonora d’Este (1515-1575), Daughter of Lucrezia Borgia,” translated by Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin, in Gendering the Renaissance, edited by Meredith K. Ray and Lara Lynn Westwater (University of Delaware Press, 2023).
• Gabriella Zarri, “Spiritual Correspondence and Examples of Reading: The Letters of a Spiritual Father with the Notes of a Visionary Nun (1628-1648),” translated by Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin, in Women as Readers in Early Modern Italy (provisional title), edited by Julia L. Hairston and Milena Sabato (forthcoming).
• Gabriella Zarri, “The Court of Mantua, the ‘Secret Company’, and the Cult of Margherita da Russi and Gentile da Ravenna,” translated by Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin, in Court Prophecies and Female Devotion in Renaissance Italy, 1450-1550 (forthcoming).
• Gabriella Zarri, “A Noble Way to Reach Perfection. The Letter of the Blessed Elena Duglioli dall’Olio to Anne of Monferrato (1521),” translated by Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin, in Court Prophecies and Female Devotion in Renaissance Italy, 1450-1550 (provisional title, forthcoming).
• Gabriella Zarri, “The ‘Mother’ of Guglielmo VIII Paleologo: Maddalena Panattieri da Trino, Dominican Tertiary (1443-1503),” translated by Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin, in Court Prophecies and Female Devotion in Renaissance Italy, 1450-1550 (provisional title, forthcoming).
• Gabriella Zarri, “Court Prophets in Renaissance Italy,” translated by Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin, Court Prophecies and Female Devotion in Renaissance Italy, 1450-1550 (provisional title, forthcoming).

Service:

• President, American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) Keystone Chapter  2024-present
• Co-editor, The Journal of Language Teaching and Technology, peer-reviewed journal 2024-present
• Co-editor, Bibliotheca Dantesca, peer-reviewed journal 2019-present

News & Miscellaneous Contributions:

• https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/dante-700-years-anniversary
• https://www.jhiblog.org/2021/04/19/italian-secrets-forgery-and-a-pearly-obsession/
• https://www.psu.edu/news/liberal-arts/story/liberal-arts-students-travel-todi-italy-faculty-led-study-abroad-program/