Here followeth the biography...
It is said in his legend that Professor Dainotto's PhD from New York University was in Comparative Literature, and only when he was struck by an illumination under the statue of Washington Duke, possessed by the spirit of JB our Founder, he started pronouncing burning words in Italian and was appointed Assistant Professor in that Field. The image of Garibaldi spake unto him and said: "Go and spread Italian words, that manyfold students can hear." And he went and taught, as thou can see, on Modern & Contemporary Italian Literature; and he wrote in European History Quarterly, SubStance, Nepantla, Critical Inquiry, Segno, NAE, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Annali d'italianistica, California Italian Studies, and in collections in Italy and abroad. On a time, he wrote about excrements, which scholars naturally abhor, but it reminded him of sublime ecstasies, and anon he wrote that for Postmodern Culture; wherefore he went to publish Il racconto americano del Novecento (Einaudi Scuola) and Place in Literature (Cornell UP, 2000), to which Europe (in Theory) (Duke UP, 2007) did follow, which won, to glory, the 2010 Laura Shannon Prize for best book in European Studies.
