Leonard Nalencz
Yale University, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2017
Dissertation Title: The Lives of Astyanax: Romance and Recovery in Ariosto, Spenser,and Milton.
Università di Bologna, Rotary International Scholarship, 1995-6
Princeton University, A.B. Comparative Literature, 1992
Associate Professor of English, University of Mount Saint Vincent, 2017—present
Adjunct Faculty, Bard Prison Initiative, 2018—present
Academic Position
Writing
Selected Guest Lectures, Readings, & Workshops:
Publication
Editor and translator, Walking Together: Poems and Songs in Quechua. A Trilingual Anthology. Trident Press, October, 2024.
Article
“Romance and Recovery in Orlando Furioso”. Modern Philology, volume 121, number 3,
February 2024
Poem
“This Is Just To Say (Homage to W.C. Williams)”. Chronogram, February 2023
Personal Essays
“On (Not) Reading Now”. In Reading Now (Dispersed Holdings, 2021). “Daybook”. In Reading Room (Dispersed Holdings, 2020)
“Teddy and Me”. February 24, 2016
“Kafka and the Nurses”, September 1, 2014
Reviews
James Joyce Literary Supplement 17, i (Spring 2003): 7-8. "The Anxiety of Origin." Review of Fraser, Jennifer Margaret, Rite of Passage in the Narratives of Dante and Joyce, 2002.
Yale Italian Poetry, Vol. IV, 2000: 139-145. Review of Dante, Inferno Translated by Robert and
Jean Hollander, and Dante, Purgatorio Translated by W.S. Merwin.
Collaborations
In Search of the Third Bird: Exemplary Essays from the Proceedings of ESTAR(SER). MIT Press, 2021. I was one of the authors of the essay “The Literature of Amphibious Ecstasis in the Americas, 1948-1968.”
Samsara: The Hudson Valley New Year’s Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza.
(Poetry Reading, Saugerties, NY, January 1, 2023).
Endangered Language Alliance, June 13, 2023 (Poetry Reading with Quechua author Elva Ambía Rebatta)
Princeton University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, January 18, 2022 (Poetry Reading with Quechua author Elva Ambía Rebatta)
Bibliophantics at Mildred’s Lane, September 14, 2021 (Poetry Reading with Jeff Dolven)
Friends of Attention, June 5, 2020 (Presentation: “Ecphrasis and Attention: Imperial Shields”)
Tamayo, Mexico City with Graham Burnett