Sherry Roush

Sherry Roush (Ph.D. Yale University, 1999; MA Yale University, 1996; BA University of California, Santa Cruz, 1992) is Professor of Italian at Penn State University. She is author of Speaking Spirits: Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy (University of Toronto Press, 2015) and Hermes’ Lyre: Italian Poetic Self-Commentary from Dante to Tommaso Campanella (University of Toronto Press, 2002), and co-editor of The Medieval Marriage Scene: Prudence, Passion, Policy (Arizona State University Press MRTS, 2005). She is also editor and translator of the facing-page edition of Tommaso Campanella’s Selected Philosophical Poems in two volumes (from The University of Chicago Press Poetry Series and Bruniana & Campanelliana Supplementi, Fabrizio Serra Editore, both 2011). Her research has been recognized with fellowships or grants by The Bogliasco Foundation, The Folger Institute, and The Giles Whiting Foundation, and she has received two distinctions for teaching from Penn State University: The Alumni Teaching Fellow Award for 2009-2012, and The College of the Liberal Arts Outstanding Teaching Award for 2004. She serves on the editorial boards of the Penn State University Press Romance Language Series and Glossator: Practice and Theory of Commentary.