Chiara Sbordoni recived her PhD in Italian Renaissance Studies from La Sapienza Università di Roma. At the University of Notre Dame in Rome she teaches the foundational course All Roads Lead to Rome as well as the Italian course Passage to Rome.
Her current research concentrates on the representation of Rome in Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature with a focus on Dante Alighieri. She studies, in particular, the presence of Rome - both the physical city and the historical, cultural, and religious idea of Rome - across the whole arc of Dante’s literary works.
