Virginia Jewiss is the Director of Public Engagement at the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute and a Teaching Professor in the Humanities.<\/p>\r\n
She joined Hopkins from Yale, where she served for many years as Assistant to the Director of the Whitney Humanities Center. A medievalist with extensive experience both within and beyond academia, she practices the humanistic teaching and scholarship that is central to AGHI\u2019s mission. She designed and directed the Yale Humanities in Rome program, crafted numerous innovative, interdisciplinary courses, helped launch the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities, and was a core faculty member for Directed Studies, Yale\u2019s great books program. A noted translator, she helped launch the Cecile and Theodore Margellos World Republic of Letters at Yale University Press and continues to serve on the advisory board. Her own translations include Dante\u2019s\u00a0Vita Nuova<\/em>, Luigi Pirandello\u2019s short stories, Roberto Saviano\u2019s\u00a0Gomorrah<\/em>,\u00a0and Melania Mazzucco\u2019s\u00a0Vita<\/em>. A longtime resident of Rome, she has collaborated with Italian directors Paolo Sorrentino and Matteo Garrone, adapting their screenplays in English for filming.\u00a0Jewiss, who earned her Ph.D. in Italian at Yale, has also taught at Dartmouth College and Trinity College\/Rome.<\/p>"],"ecpt_extra_tab_title":["Translations"],"ecpt_extra_tab":["\r\n
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