Martin Marafioti

Faculty Bio

Martin Marafioti has been a faculty member in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Pace University since 2004. He completed his Ph.D. in Italian Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, specializing in Italian Medieval and Early Modern literature and the intersections between literature and medicine.

He recently has published a translation of Michele Savonarola’s Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara, a Fifteenth Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics [Ed. Gabriella Zuccolin] (Iter Press, University of Toronto, 2022); and a monograph titled
Storytelling as Plague Prevention in Medieval and Early Modern Italy (Routledge, 2018).

At Pace University, Dr. Marafioti teaches a wide variety of courses including Italian language, Spanish language, Italian Literature, as well as courses he has developed that focus on an analysis of Italy through its cinema, representations of gender and sexuality in popular and official culture, Italian cultural identity, and the role of narrative throughout periods of epidemic illness.

Awards and Honors

• Pace University, 2022, Scholarly Research Grant
• Pace University, 2015, President's Award for Excellence, Team Award
• National Endowment for the Humanities, 2014, National Endowment for the Humanities Translations and Scholarly Editions Grant
• Pace University, 2013, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences ePortfolio Assessment Grant
• National Endowment for the Humanities, 2009, Summer Seminar: "Disease in the Middle Ages"
• New York University, 2008, Visiting Scholar
• Pace University, 2007, Presidential Grant

PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 2002
Italian Studies

MA, The Catholic University of America, 1993
Italian Literature

MA, The Catholic University of America, 1993
Spanish and Latin American Literature

BA, University of Maryland, 1990
Romance Languages

Research Interest

Medieval and Early Modern Italian Literature and Cultural Studies, Intersections Between Literature and Medicine, History of Medicine

Past Courses

DYS 499: Sen Yr Exp-Modern Lang/Culture
FRE 491: French Internship
INT 197: Rome: The Eternal City -Travel
INT 396: Books that Transform You
ITA 101: Elementary College Italian I
ITA 102: Elementary College Italian II
ITA 154: Gndr & Sxlty, Itln Styl
ITA 154: Modern Italian Culture & Film
ITA 154: The Splendors of Tuscany
ITA 154: Tpc: Italian Cinema
ITA 154: Tpc: Italy: Ystrdy, Tdy & Tmrw
ITA 154: Tpc: The Wrld of Dante's Infrn
ITA 163: Italian Civilization I
ITA 166: Italian Cinema
ITA 280: Intensive Review of Italian
ITA 283: Intermediate Italian Cnvrstn
ITA 284: Intermediate Italian Cmpstn
ITA 300: Italian Oggi
ITA 301: Advanced Italian Conversation
ITA 302: Advanced Italian Composition
ITA 304: Italian Trnsltn & Intpretatn
ITA 310: Italian Culture/Civilization I
ITA 316: Intro to Italian Literature I
ITA 317: Intro to Italian Literature II
ITA 320: Dante, Petrarca, and Boccaccio
ITA 380: Epics of Epid:Narration Plague
ITA 380: Italian Seminar: Italian Voice
ITA 380: Trnsfrmng Italian Lit. & Film
ITA 390: Italian Internship I
ITA 402: Shadow Seminar In Italian II
SPA 101: Elementary College Spanish I
SPA 102: Elementary College Spanish II

Publications

A Mother's Manual for the Women of Ferrara: A Fifteenth-Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics, translated by Martin Marafioti, Edited by Gabriella Zuccolin
Marafioti, M. (2022). A Mother's Manual for the Women of Ferrara: A Fifteenth-Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics, translated by Martin Marafioti, Edited by Gabriella Zuccolin.Toronto , Canada : IterAcademic Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo151927669.html

Review of Margaret Franklin’s Boccaccio’s Heroines: Power and Virtue in Renaissance Society
Marafioti, M. (2007).

Presentations

Epics of Epidemics in the Italian Literary Imagination
Marafioti, M. (2024). Department of Transnational Italian Studies. Bryn Mawr College,

Accessibilty and Agency via Language Choice: Michele Savonarola's Mother's Manual for the Women of Ferrara
Marafioti, M. (2022). Dyson Seminar in the Humanities & Social Sciences Series. Pace University

Unpacking the Doctor’s Bag: Translating Savonarola’s Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara
Marafioti, M. (2021). Open Borders: Translation and Its Perils. Lehman College, CUNY

Department Service

• Assessment [MOL Departmental Representative]
• Film and Screen Studies Advisory Board [Committee Member]
• Departmental Representative for Modern Languages and Cultures at Pace Preview [Departmental Representative]
• Search Committee for position in Queer Studies in Women’s and Gender Studies Department [Committee Member]

College Service

• Dyson Sabbatical Committee [Committee Chair]

University Service

• Council of Deans and Faculty on Promotion and Tenure [Committee Member]