I finished my PhD in Italian Studies at Brown in 1998 with a dissertation on Masuccio Salernitano and am currently Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. My current research interests include Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, the Italian novella and the teaching of literature in the hypertext environment. Publications include Keen and Violent Remedies: Social Satire and the Grotesque in Masuccio Salernitano’s Novellino (2000), Concordance to the Decameron (2001) and articles on Dante, Boccaccio, Masuccio, the novella, Fellini and the Tavianis. I’m editor of Heliotropia, online editor of Lectura Dantis, co-editor of the Progetto Pico and two NEH-funded projects: the Decameron Web and the present Virtual Humanities Lab. My work on this latter project will be directed principally toward the Esposizioni.