Prof. Christopher S. Celenza
Department of German and Romance Languages
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218
USA
E-mail: celenza@jhu.edu
I am a historian and Latinist who works on European intellectual history. I hold two doctoral degrees, a PhD in History (Duke University, 1995) and a DrPhil in Classics and Neo-Latin Literature (University of Hamburg, 2001), as well as a BA (1988) and MA (1989) in History from SUNY-Albany.
My areas of interest include: the Latin literature and philosophy of the Italian Renaissance; late medieval intellectual history; the history of philosophy; the history of books and reading practices; and Latin paleography.
I am a professor in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University, where I have been since 2005. Before that I taught for nine years in the History Department at Michigan State University. At Johns Hopkins University I hold secondary appointments in the History Department, the Department of Classics, and the Humanities Center.
My publications include the following books:
The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin’s Legacy (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004) xx + 210 pp. This book won the Renaissance Society of America’s 2005 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize and was selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2006. Paperback ed., 2006.
Piety and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence: The Symbolum Nesianum, Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 101 (Leiden, Boston, and Cologne: Brill, 2001) x + 238 pp.
Renaissance Humanism and the Papal Curia: Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger’s De curiae commodis, Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, 31 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999) xiv + 244 pp.
Ed., with Kenneth Gouwens, Humanism and Creativity: Essays in Honor of Ronald G. Witt (Leiden: Brill, 2006), xv + 411 pp.
I have held fellowships from the ACLS (Burckhart Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, 2003-04), Villa I Tatti (the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 1999-2000), the American Academy in Rome (1993-94), and the Fulbright Foundation (1992-93). From 2002-2005 I served as Director of the Summer Program in Applied Palaeography at the American Academy in Rome. I am active in the Renaissance Society of America.
