Alejandro Cuadrado is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures at Bowdoin College and an Assistant Editor of Digital Dante.
He received his PhD in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2023 with a dissertation titled Dante, Historian of Religious Orders, in which he analyzed how Dante thinks about the history of religious institutions in the Commedia. While at Columbia, he taught courses in the Italian Department, as well as “Literature Humanities” in the Columbia Core Curriculum. He was a Senior Writing Consultant at the GSAS Writing Studio, President for two terms of the Arts & Sciences Graduate Council, and recipient of the 2023 Campbell Award. After completing his PhD, he joined the Italian Studies Department at Yale University, where he taught seminars on Dante, medieval and Renaissance lyric poetry, the Italian diaspora in the Americas, and a survey of western literature. He now teaches courses on Italian language and literature at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He is currently working on his first book, The Corruption of the Church and Dante’s Philosophy of History.
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