Filippo Gianferrari

Filippo Gianferrari is Assistant Professor of Literature at The University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a trained medievalist with a particular interest on the history of education and literacy in the pre-modern West and its impact on the political and social lives of Italian city-states. Gianferrari is originally from Modena, Italy, graduated from the University of Bologna and received a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame. Before working at UCSC, he taught at Vassar College and Smith College.