Contact

anna.lesiuk@mtangel.edu

Education

PhD: University of Oregon (2014)
Advanced MA: Catholic University of Leuven (2007)
MA: University of Warsaw (2003)

Courses taught

• Beginning Spanish I
• Beginning Spanish II
• Intermediate Spanish I
• Intermediate Spanish II
• Advanced Spanish I
• Advanced Spanish II
• Latin for Reading
• Beginning Latin I
• Beginning Latin II
• Intermediate Latin I
• Directed Study in Italian
• Humanities I (1000 B.C.E. – 500 C.E.) Prehistory to the Middle Ages
• Humanities II (500 – 1500 C.E.) The Middle Ages
• Humanities III (1500 C.E. – 1800 C.E.) The Renaissance to the Enlightenment
• Humanities IV (1800 C.E. – The Present) The Industrial Revolution to the Contemporary World
• Golden Age of Spanish Mysticism
• Thinkers and Themes From the World of the Renaissance

Research Interests

• Renaissance Thought
• Early Modern travel literature
• Neo-Latin literature
• Renaissance and Baroque Italian
• Spanish and French literature
• Postcolonial studies
• Humanism(s) across the ages
• Spanish Mysticism
• The Gregorian Reform

Select projects

• “Indiscretae opus imaginis – la gloriosa deficienza dell’Io nell’ Oratio di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), De sapiente di Charles de Bovelles (1475-1567) e Fabula de homine di Juan Luis Vives (1493-1540) e il problema dell’umanesimo rinascimentale” in Atti del Convegno Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Mirandola-Ferrara 2014 (Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali di Ferrara, Pisa-Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2015)

Professional associations

• The Renaissance Society of America (RSA)
• American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS)
• The Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry (SRBHP)