Associate Dean
Areas of Responsibility
- Academic Resources (formerly, Teaching Center)
- African American Studies Program
- Center for African Studies
- Center for European Studies
- Center for Jewish Studies
- Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research
- Faculty affairs
- College representative to UF-UFF contract negotiations
- Faculty Grievances
- Faculty Salaries/Raises/Market Equity/Bylaws
- Sexual Harassment
- Tenure and Promotion Committee
- Annual evaluation letters and AARs of untenured faculty
- Undergraduate Student Academic Complaints and Concerns
- Unit Bylaws
Brief Biography
Mary holds a Ph.D. in Italian Studies and a J.D., both from the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses on medieval and early modern Italian literature and culture, with a particular focus on Dante’s Divine Comedy. Her work has been supported by the Rothman Endowment for the Humanities, the Municipality of Ravenna, Italy, and the University of Oslo’s Norwegian Institute in Rome. She is the author of over fifty journal articles, book chapters, reviews and translations and currently serves as a review editor for Speculum, the journal of the American Medieval Academy. Mary has been a Goggio Chair Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto and given talks at multiple universities in the US, Canada, and Europe. She is the author of The Cross that Dante Bears: Pilgrimage, Crusade, and the Cruciform Church in the Divine Comedy (University Press of Florida, 2005,) and Dante, Columbus and the Prophetic Tradition: Spiritual Imperialism in the Italian Imagination (Routledge, 2017), and Dante’s Golden Legend: Auto-hagiography in the Divine Comedy (Mercer University Press, 2021).