Center for the Study of the Early Modern World

Zoe Langer completed her dissertation, "Dante's Printed Afterlives: Authorship, Authority, and the Early Modern Book (1500–1800)," in the Italian Studies Department in 2019. Drawing on the disciplines of book history, visual studies, and reception theory, her dissertation shows how the poem’s visual presentation in printed editions yields new insights into the history of reading the Commedia in early modern Europe. From 2017 to 2018 she was the curatorial fellow at the John Hay Special Collections Library where she curated the exhibition  “The Poetry of Science: Dante’s Comedy and the Crafting of a Cosmos." Langer completed her B.A. in Art History at the University of California, Berkeley and received her M.Phil. in Literature at the University of Cambridge. She has been awarded fellowships from the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, the Bibliographical Society of America, the Medici Archive Project, and the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel, Germany.