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Call for Essays on Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales (Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales)

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Organization: Teaching the Middle Ages
Event: Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales
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Event Date: 2025-12-21 Abstract Due: 2025-06-30

Call for Papers: Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales

In honor of the 650th year of Giovanni Boccaccio’s passing (December 21, 1375), the Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales project is accepting papers on individual tales of The Decameron. We welcome papers and proposals from students!

 

About the project
The Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales project was started in 2020 as a part of the Teaching the Middle Ages through Novel Studies program (Teaching Materials | Teaching the Middle Ages), partnered with Ontario’s School Boards. In 2021, Dr. Russo’s Signs, Meaning, and Culture (MCS223) students at Victoria University in the University of Toronto developed essays on 23 of The Decameron’s stories. Eight of her students won the 2021 EWO WIL Student of the Year Award for their contributions to the project.

In 2022, members of the American Boccaccio Association (ABA) and Scholars from across North America joined the project, contributing introductions and further resources. The same year, Dr. Russo continued the project at Brock University. Her students in the MARS 3P92 course contributed a further 18 tales to the project. Dr. Russo received a CEWIL grant in 2023 and 2024 to develop this project.

 

We want to hear from you!
We are accepting critical and academic essays on any tale of The Decameron that we have not yet published! We prefer papers that consider the day’s tale critically, implementing theory, though we will consider critical papers without theory. Some guidelines for submissions:

-      Papers must be between 750-1,500 words in length.

-      Papers must adhere to MLA 9 formatting.

-      All references must be complete and accurate.

-      We welcome submissions that incorporate images sourced from databases such as ArtStor.

Though you do not have to follow it exactly, we reserve the right to make edits in accordance with our style guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LE2I9FxDYJ8uaR1RkLjReZ3TSIVy03lg/view?usp=drivesdk

Here’s the list of claimable tales:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-iSOYfcPb1a9hAlmpCxT6swxGpMqPPIBabMw4xkiDpM/  edit

 

The deadline to submit is Monday June 30, 2025 at 11:59 pm.

 

Inquiries, papers, and proposals can be sent to: Dr. Teresa Russo, Project Lead, teresa.russo@utoronto.ca, russot@fau.edu

Rion Levy, Project Editor, rion.levy@alumni.utoronto.ca

https://www.teachingthemiddleages.com/story-maps

russot@fau.edu

Dr. Teresa Russo