Katie Sparrow

Teaching Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow - Rome Global Gateway

Education

Ph.D., University of Notre Dame 
M.A., University of Notre Dame 
B.A., University of Reading

Research and Teaching Interests

Dante; Medieval Narratives; Narratology; Characterization; Autobiography and Life Writing; Italian Cinema; Pasolini.

Biography

Katie Sparrow is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway in Italy. She earned her Ph.D. in Italian Studies and M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Notre Dame. She completed her bachelor’s degree in French and Italian at the University of Reading (UK) in 2015.

Katie’s primary research explores Dante’s approach to characters and characterization and, in particular, Dante’s self-characterization in the Vita nova and Commedia. Her research considers modern narratological theories on character and autobiography in its investigation of narrative, structural, and stylistic methods employed by Dante to construct his overarching, self-representative “Dante”. Her other research interests include medieval and early modern autobiography and life writing more generally, Italian cinema, and the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini.