Katie Sparrow is a postdoctoral fellow at Notre Dame Rome, where she instructs the course, All Roads Lead to Rome. Her primary research focuses on self-characterization in Dante’s works. She investigates the ways in which Dante constructs his self-representation in and across his works using modern narratological theories. Her other research interests include medieval and early modern autobiography and life writing, Italian cinema, and the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Sparrow is originally from London and earned her B.A. in French and Italian from the University of Reading. She completed her M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures and her Ph.D. in Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame.