Beatrice Rosso

Biography

Beatrice Maria Rosso is a third-year Ph.D. student in Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame, with a minor in Medieval Studies. Her dissertation explores how the rewriting of cosmogonical passages in Dante’s Commedia informs and authorizes the poetic invention of the afterlife. Her research examines how Dante integrates metaphysical, scientific, and linguistic ideas into his vision of Creation.

Her broader academic interests include Boccaccio’s lyric poetry and contemporary Italian literature, particularly the prose of Elio Vittorini.

Beatrice earned both her B.A. and M.A. in Italian Studies from the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna. Her undergraduate thesis focused on the figure of Adam in Paradiso XXVI, while her master’s thesis explored the angelology of Paradiso XXIX. During her undergraduate studies, she spent a semester in Budapest, Hungary (2020), where she began teaching Italian as a second language. She has continued teaching both language and literature courses at Notre Dame.

She currently serves as a Graduate Student Representative for the Dante Society of America, as a Graduate Associate at the Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence, and as Graduate Fellow at the Nanovic Institute. She is also a collaborator with the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI).