Claire L. Huffman

Education:

Ph.D., with highest honors, Harvard University - 1973 (Romance Languages and Literatures)

M.A., Harvard University - 1967 (Romance Languages and Literatures)

B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Barnard College - 1966

Books and Publications

Montale and the Occasions of Poetry. Princeton Legacy Library. Paperback. (Books and Publications: Book) 2014

A large historical project chronicling the cultural roles of three families that came to the United States from Italy and France in the 17th century. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2014

Preface to E. Montale, Satura (transl. by William Arrowsmith) Norton, 1998.
Eugenio Montale: Tradotto dai Poeti. Symposium.
(Review) Landscape Poetry, for Forum Italicum
Review article, Montale, Cuttlefish Bones, transl. W. Arrowsmith, Forum italicum.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000

Translations of Annalisa Cima, Sesamon, Forum Italicum 27 (1993)
Il Vento di Debussy: La poesia di Montale nella cultura del Novecento," Italica 63, No. 4.
Allegory at the limits of classicism: Eugenioi Montale's La bufera e altro Forum italicum
"Annalisa Cima," in Dictionary of Literary Biography 128 (1993), 120- 24.
Preface to E. Montale, Satura (transl. by William Arrowsmith) Norton, 1998.
Eugenio Montale: Tradotto dai Poeti. Symposium.
(Review) Landscape Poetry, for Forum Italicum
Review article, Montale, Cuttlefish Bones, transl. W. Arrowsmith, Forum italicum
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1993

"Montale for the English Speaking: The Case of 'In limine.'" Forum Italicum 23: 121-46. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1989

"Eugenio Montale and Giacomo Leopardi." Italian Quarterly 28: 25-34. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1987

"The Storm and Other Things, by Eugenio Montale." Translated, with Preface and Commentary, by William Arrowsmith. New York: Norton. Philadelphia Enquirer. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1985

Eugenio Montale and the Occasions of Poetry. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Reviews have appeared in Italian Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, Italica, Modern Language Review and Autografo. (Books and Publications: Book) 1983

"Montale, Eliot and the Poetic Object." Italian Quarterly 21: 63-82. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1980

"Structuralist Literary Criticism." Modern Language Review 72: 322-34. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1977

Co-author, "Firenzuola, Surrey and Thomas Watson Once More." Revue des Langues Vivantes 42: 403-14. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1976

"Eugenio Montale: Questions, Answers and Contexts." The Yearbook of Italian Studies, 1973-75: 219-33. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1975

"T.S. Eliot, Eugenio Montale and the Vagaries of Influence." Comparative Literature XXVII: 193-207. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1975

"Vitaliano Brancati: A Reassessment." Forum Italicum VI: 356-77. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1972

"La narrativa di Vitaliano Brancati, by V.G. Stacchini." Forum Italicum V: 656-59. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1971

"Farfalla di Dinard of Eugenio Montale." Forum Italicum III: 232-51. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1969

"The Poetic Language of Eugenio Montale." Italian Quarterly XII: 105-27. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1969

Review of "Allegory at the Limits of Classicism." Forum Italicum. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1968

Research Activities

Editorial consultant for W.W. Norton, Wesleyan University Press and Viking Press. 2009

"Further Studies in Montale" and "Eugenio Montale: Complete Annotated Edition, With Translation." 2008

Other Professional Activities

Cambridge University International Biography Center listing ("one of the most valuable academics of the 20th century"). 1996

Reader of grant proposals for American Council of Learned Societies. 1982

Reader of grant proposals for American Council of Learned Societies. 1981

Member, Prize Essay Selection Committee, Dante Society of America. 1978

Member, Prize Essay Selection Committee, Dante Society of America. 1977