Emily Benedicto

Student NameEmily Benedict

Faculty Mentor NameDr. Mary A. Watt

CollegeCollege of Liberal Arts and Sciences

MajorForeign Languages and Literatures

MinorEuropean Union Studies

Research Interests“Literary Analysis
Italian Medieval Studies”

Academic AwardsBright Futures, 2019, 2020
President’s Honor Roll, 2020
University Scholars Program 2020

OrganizationsEuropean Union Club

Hobbies and Interests Traveling, art history, classic literature.

Research Project

Dante’s Divine Comedy: Carnival, Inversion, and the Topsy Turvy

My project will on researching the hermeneutic strategies of hierarchical inversion and perversion that the author utilizes to emphasize the topsy-turvy world of Inferno and the pervading influence it has had over time.