Daniel Armenti

Assistant Professor | Director of Italian Studies

Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

High Point University

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EDUCATION

University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, September 2020

Dissertation: Moralizing the Rape of Philomela in Late Medieval Commentary

M.A. in Comparative Literature, September 2014

 

Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY

B.A. in the Division of Languages and Literature, May 2007

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PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapters

  • “Lawful Language and Global North Atlantic Encounters in the 13th Warrior,” with Nahir I. Otaño Gracia. Law, Justice, and Society: Teaching the Middle Ages through Film, Fordham University Press, 2025.
  • Introduction to Women’s Lives: Self-Representation, Reception, and Appropriation in the Middle Ages. Edited by Nahir I. Otaño Gracia and Daniel Armenti, University of Wales Press, 2022, pp. 1-10.
  • Introduction and transcription (in collaboration). Traducción de La Fiammetta de Giovanni Boccaccio: Edición del Incunable de Salamanca (1497). Edited by Albert Lloret, Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 2018.
  • “The Tale of Ruggieri de’ Figiovanni (X.1).” The Decameron: Tenth Day in Perspective, edited by Michael Papio, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming.

Edited Volumes

  • Editor, Women’s Lives: Self-Representation, Reception, and Appropriation in the Middle Ages. University of Wales Press, 2022.

Encyclopedia Articles

  • “Ovid, Heroides,” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Women’s Writing in the Global Middle Ages. Edited by Michelle Sauer, Diane Watt, and Elizabeth Herbert, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
  • “Giovanni Boccaccio, De mulieribus claris,” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Women’s Writing in the Global Middle Ages. Edited by Michelle Sauer, Diane Watt, and Elizabeth Herbert, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.


Peer Reviewed Articles

  • “Philomela’s Cloth: Authority and Expression after Rape,” Florilegium: Special Issue on Sexualized and Gendered Violence in the Middle Ages, vol. 38, 2001 [2025], pp. 58-71.
  • “Constructing Prejudice in the Middle Ages and the Repercussions of Racism Today.” Medieval Feminist Forum Subsidia on Microaggressions, Harassment, and Abuse—Medieval and Modern. Co-authored with Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, edited by Linda Mitchell and Jennifer Edwards, 2017, pp. 176-201.

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SELECT CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Presentations

  • “‘Ah, how you resemble your father!’: Family as a Space for Revenge.” (Roundtable) Modern Language Association Annual Convention 2024, Philadelphia, January 2024.
  • “Decameron X.1.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention 2024, Philadelphia, January 2024.
  • “Philomela’s Cloth, Authorship, and Authority.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference 2022, Johns Hopkins University, March 2022.
  • “‘Pulchra erat’: Arnulf of Orléans Reads Rape in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 2020 (cancelled).
  • “The Medieval Philomela and Vernacular Adaptation.” Classical Association of New England Annual Meeting, College of the Holy Cross, March 2019.
  • “‘Mes or laissons lor loi ester’: Conflicting Legal Institutions in Chrétien de Troyes’s Philomena.” The 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2017.
  • “Staining the Sheets: Albertino Mussato’s Priapic Works.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference 2016, University of Connecticut, March 2016.
  • “A Narrative Critique of Magnanimity in the Novella di Ruggieri (Dec. X.1).” (Roundtable) Northeast Modern Language Association Conference 2015, Ryerson University, April – May 2015.
  • “Consolations of Writing: Ovid, Blanchot, and the Limits of the Work.” Crossroads Conference 2012, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Oct. 2012.

Panels Organized

  • “New Theoretical Approaches to Medieval Women Writers” and “Writing Medieval Women Mystics” The 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2015.
  • “Representing Rape in Medieval Literature”
  • Northeast Modern Language Association Conference 2014, Susquehanna University, April 2014.
  • “Adapting Arthur: Cultural Crisis in Medieval Arthurian Literature”
  • American Comparative Literature Association Conference 2012, Brown University, March 2012.

Conferences Organized

  • Crossroads: Dead-Ends, Delays and Detours, Crossroads Conference 2012, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Oct. 2012.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

High Point University, Italian Program, 2024-Present

–Assistant Professor and Director of the Italian Program

ITA 3232          Sicily: Crossroads of the Mediterranean (Maymester; May 2025)

ITA 2050          Reading and Composition (Italian)

ITA 2010          Intermediate Italian 1

ITA 2020          Intermediate Italian 2

ITA 1010          Beginning Italian 1

ITA 1020          Beginning Italian 2

 

College of the Holy Cross, Italian Program, 2018-2024

–Visiting Assistant Professor

ITAL 201         Intermediate Italian 1

ITAL 202         Intermediate Italian 2

ITAL 103         Intensive Elementary Italian (Spring 2018)

ITAL 101         Elementary Italian 1

ITAL 102         Elementary Italian 2

MONT 152Q    Literature and Continuity (Year-Long Montserrat FYS Program; 2022-2024)

                        • Fall Semesters: Foundation and Crisis

                        • Spring Semesters: Crisis and Continuity

STWL 291        Foxes and Lions: Renaissance Italian Political Thought (Independent Study; Fall 2023)

 

University of Massachusetts Amherst, Program in Comparative Literature, 2011-2023

–Visiting Lecturer, 2022-2023

Comp-Lit 345   Legends of King Arthur (Fall 2022)

Comp-Lit 122   Spiritual Autobiography: Voice, Identity, and Appropriation (Spring 2023)

 

–Teaching Associate (instructor of record), 2011-2019)

Comp-Lit 236   Digital Culture[s]: Communities and Perceptions (Fall 2016)

Comp-Lit 204   Medieval Epic and Romance: An Introduction to Medieval Literature (Spring 2014)

Comp-Lit 141   Good and Evil: East and West (Fall 2011, Spring 2018, Fall 2018)

Comp-Lit 131   Brave New World: The Dystopian Tradition (Spring 2011, Spring 2013; Residential Academic Program)

Comp-Lit 122   Spiritual Autobiography: Confessions and Altered Realities (Spring 2012)

Comp-Lit 122   Spiritual Autobiography: Othered Voices (Spring 2016; Online Section of the Course)

Comp-Lit 121   International Short Story: Word, Fable, Myth (Fall 2012; Residential Academic Program)

Ital 197A          English Grammar for Students of Italian and French (Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018)

Ital 126             Intensive Elementary Italian (Spring 2015)

Ital 120             Elementary Italian 2 (Spring 2016, 2017, 2019)

Ital 110             Elementary Italian 1 (Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016)

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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

  • “Self-Representation and Fabricated Experiences,” The Refinery, Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, February 2022.
  • “Philomela as Victim: Philomela as Monster.” In the Renaissance Wednesday Series at the Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, March 2019.

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SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Academic Service

  • Program Director, Italian Studies Program, Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, High Point University, 2025-Present.
  • Member of the Global Studies Committee, High Point University, 2024-Present.
  • Chair of the Committee on Committees, Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, High Point University, 2024-Present.
  • Graduate Student Representative on the Undergraduate Studies Committee, Program in Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2015-2016.

Peer Reviewer

  • Heliotropia – An online journal of research to Boccaccio Scholars, scholarworks.umass.edu/heliotropia.
  • Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, https://wmich.edu/medievalpublications/journals/mff.
  • New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation, Johns Hopkins University, https://newliteraryhistory.org/.

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EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Academic Publications

  • Associate Editor, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Women’s Writing in the Global Middle Ages. Edited by Michelle Sauer, Diane Watt, and Elizabeth Herbert, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022-2027.
  • Copyeditor, The Other Faces of Arthur. By Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, U of Pennsylvania P, 2025.
  • Editorial Assistant, Northeast Modern Language Association Italian Studies. University at Buffalo, 2015-2019, 2025.
  • Editorial Assistant, Humanism and Poggio Bracciolini: Proceedings of the Colloquium Held at Bryn Mawr College on April 8-9, 2016 Da una giornata di studio in ricordo di Phyllis Walter Goodhart Gordan. Edited by David Cast, Eric Pumroy, and Roberta Ricci, Firenze University Press, 2020.
  • Editorial Assistant, Mapping Leopardi. Edited by Emanuela Cervato, Mark Epstein, Giulia Santi, and Simona Wright, Cambridge Scholars, 2019.
  • Editorial Assistant, Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures. Johns Hopkins UP, 2012-2015.

 

Literary Publications

  • Translation Reviewer, Proofreader for Europa Editions, New York and Rome, 2016-Present.
  • Translator, Translation Reviewer, Proofreader for The Passenger (periodical), Iperborea and Europa Editions, Rome and Milan, 2019-2020.

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HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Douglas S. Witcher School of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences Award for Extraordinary Leadership, High Point University, 2025.
  • Summer Dissertation Writing Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, 2015.
  • Distinguished Teaching Award, nominee, University of Massachusetts, 2012, 2014.

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LANGUAGES

  • English (native proficiency)
  • Italian (near-native proficiency)
  • French (Speaking: intermediate proficiency; Reading: advanced proficiency)
  • Spanish (Speaking: intermediate proficiency; Reading: advanced proficiency)
  • German (elementary proficiency)

Non-spoken languages:

Latin, Middle English, Medieval Italian (various dialects), Medieval Catalan, Old French, Old Occitan

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