Professor
Medieval and Renaissance
Italian Literature Romance Languages and Literatures
The Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218
Telephone: 410-516-7229
E-mail: walter.stephens@jhu.edu Curriculum Vitae Walter Stephens is the Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies and
also Director of Villa Spelman, Johns Hopkins's Center for Italian Studies
in Florence, Italy. Stephens's research and teaching concentrate on the
relation of Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature to theology,
philosophy, history, philology, and literary forgery. He has published
Giants in Those Days: Folklore, Ancient History, and Nationalism (Nebraska,
1989); Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief (Chicago,
2002); and numerous essays on Italian authors, especially Torquato Tasso and
Umberto Eco.
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