David Wray, “On Rereading Dante’s Vita Nuova”, University of Chicago, 2012.

As part of UChicago’s 34th annual Humanities Day on October 20, 2012, David Wray, Associate Professor in Classics and Director of the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH), and Hilary Strang, Deputy Director of MAPH, gave a reading of Dante’s complex, self-referential book of poetry and prose, La Vita Nuova. This text is taught as part of the MAPH Core course Foundations of Interpretive Theory and is a fascinating meditation on what it means to write, read, and desire.