Jon Snyder, Chair
Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature

Educational Background

• Ph.D, Yale University, 1982
• M. Phil, Yale University, 1979
• B.A., Princeton University, 1976

Research Interests

• Italian literature and comparative European literature
• Early modern and modern periods
• Literary theory and Continental philosophy

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)

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); 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.
  
  Updated July 17, 2008