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Dr. Anthony Russell

Associate Professor of English and Italian Studies
Coordinator, Italian Studies Program
Curriculum Vitae

  • Profile
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    • Grants and Fellowships

      FRC Summer Fellowship, University of Richmond, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2016, 2015

    • Awards

      Outstanding Teacher Award, South Atlantic Association of Departments of English, 2004

      Distinguished Educator Award, University of Richmond, 2002

    • Presentations

      Selected Presentations

      • Invited lecture (Nov. 30, 2021): “The Rewards of Virtù and the Religion of Art in Vasari’s Lives: The Case of Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi.” Medici Archive Project webinar series (Florence).
      • “The Last shall be First: Vasari’s ‘O’ and the Word Made Flesh in the Life of Giotto.” Paper presented at the Spring 2022 Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America in Dublin.
      • “’Faceva agl’occhi compassione nel vedere’: Vasari on carne and Incarnation.” Paper presented at the Spring 2021 Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America.
      • “’Newly performed by that rare Italian master’: Miracles in Winter’s Tale and Vasari’s ” Paper presented at the Spring 2019 Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America.
      • “’La forza della virtù’: Vasari on Skill and Holiness.”  Paper presented at the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium: On the Peripheries of the Reformation (October 2017)
      • Presentation of play, “Shakepseare in Love,” for the Virginia Repertory Theatre. Part of an ongoing series entitled “Four Questions” conceived together with Susan Davenport from Virginia Rep. (Fall 2017)
      • “From Beatrice to Mona Lisa: Love and Grace in Vasari’s Vite.” Paper presented at the Spring 2016 Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America.
      • “Equivocation and equivocation.” Talk delivered October 12, 2014, for Four Thoughts Series sponsored by University of Richmond and Virginia Rep.

    • Institutional Service

      • Coordinator, Italian Studies Section, LLC (2017-present)
      • University of Richmond Finance Committee (2021-present)
      • Faculty Senate (Division 1) (2019-2022)
      • Chair and member, Committee on Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (UR,
      • 2017-2021)
      • President, Board of Directors of Richmond city’s Quill Theatre (2014-2020)
      • Cultural Affairs Committee (UR, 2017-2019)
      • Faculty Fellow and Director of UR Fulbright Program and CLAC (UR, 2016-2018)
      • Associate Dean, Office of International Education (UR, 2016-17)

  • Selected Publications
    Books

    William Shakespeare & 21st Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership: Bard Bites. Co-edited with Kristen Bezio (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Press, April 2021). 261 pages.

    Journal Articles

    "Literature, Pandemic, and the Insufficiency of Survival: Boccaccio's Decameron and Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven." Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies 1 (2022) pp. 32-49.

    “‘La forza della virtù’: Vasari on Skill and Holiness in the Lives of Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi.” I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance23:1 (Spring 2020): 101-124.

    “Portia Goes to Washington: Shakespeare and Judge Kavanaugh,” Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies, 53:2 (August 2019): 602-606.(https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0014585819831682)

    Book Chapters

    “Introduction. ‘I that please some, try all’: Shakespeare this Time.” Co-written with Kristin Bezio. In William Shakespeare & 21st Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership: Bard Bites (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Press, April 2021) pp. 1-9.

    “’Lies like truth’: Macbeth and the American Dream.”In William Shakespeare & 21st Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership: Bard Bites(Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Press, April 2021) pp. 67-89.

    “’Sans artifice est ma simplicité’: Sincerité et Vertu dans les Regrets et Astrophil and Stella,” in Pascale Chiron & Lidia Radi (eds.), La Valeur des Lettres à la Renaissance. Débats et Réflexions autour de la Vertu de la Littérature (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2016), pp. 169-190.