Laura DiNardo is a Core Lecturer in the Department of Italian at Columbia University.
She received her B.A. in Linguistics magna cum laude, with distinction in the major, from Yale University, and her M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. Her research examines medieval and contemporary approaches to the study of philosophy of language in relation to the works of Dante. Her dissertation “Dante, Philosopher of Language: Performing Pragmatics and Semantics in the Commedia” utilized analytic philosophical methods to fully excavate the poet’s enactment of a language theory in the text.
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