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Jon Snyder
Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature
Educational Background
- Ph.D, Yale University, 1982
- M. Phil, Yale University, 1979
- B.A., Princeton University, 1976
Academic Distinctions and Awards
- UC Santa Barbara Foundation’s Distinguished Faculty Teacher Award, 2001
- Fondazione Cassamarca, Treviso (Italy), Research Grant for California/Italy Cultural Relations, 1998
- Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Translation Subsidy, Villa I Tatti, 1997
- Lila Wallace Fellow, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 1995-96
- Huntington Library Resident Fellowship, 1993
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for University Teachers (1986)
- Columbia University Fellowship for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Summer 1989, Summer 1990)
- French Government Fellowship for dissertation research at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy)
Research Interests
- Italian literature and comparative European literature
- Early modern and modern periods
- Literary theory and Continental philosophy
Publications
- His first book dealt with the late Renaissance dialogue: Writing the scene of speaking: theories of dialogue in the late Italian Renaissance. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989.
- L'Estetica del Barocco. Bologna, Italy: Il Mulino, 2005. Translation in Portuguese with Editorial Estampa, 2007; in Spanish with Antonio Machado Libros, forthcoming.
- His new book Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe is forthcoming (Berkeley/London: UC Press); as well as in Italian: La dissimulazione. Saggio sul comportamento celato nell’Antico Regime ( Biblioteca del Cinquecento. Rome: Bulzoni, forthcoming).
- Has authored many articles and translations on topics from utopia to postmodernism.