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Anna Dini is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at University of California, Berkeley. She writes about frame tale collections, and her dissertation is entitled The Role of Performance in the Decameron and the Thousand and One Nights. Her interests include narratology, orality, gender, and the question of authorship. Her research brings together medieval Italian literature and its relationship to the Arabic tradition, performance theory, and Mediterranean studies.
While at UC Berkeley, Anna has taught for the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Italian Studies. She was awarded Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor for Italian Studies by the Berkeley Graduate Division in 2022.
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