Research Interests: The long eighteenth-century (1660-1830) French and Italian literature (emphasis on Sicilian writers); religious and philosophical movements; European and Mediterranean history/civilization; material culture. Dr. Summerfield is also a published poet and short-story writer.
Subject Areas: Italian, French
Professional Interests:
- MLA - Modern Language Association
- ASECS - American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
- SEASECS Southeastern Branch of ASECS
- Rousseau Association
- Eighteenth-Century French Writings
- Eighteenth-Century Resources
- C18-L's Selected Readings
- Societe francaise d'etude du dix-huiti me siecle
- Bibliographie du XVIIIe siecle
- Picpus -A Walled Garden (Paris et la revolution)
- Italian Literature
- Sicilian Literature
- OSIA - Sons of Italy
- ODLI - Organizzazione Diffusione Lingua Italiana
- Contes de fees
- Le Favole
- American Association of Teachers of French
- American Association of Teachers of Italian
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- ATA - American Translators Association
- Translation Journal
- Translation Directory
- Academie francaise
- Gallica (BNF)
- La Biblioteca di Babele
- French Ministry of Culture
- French Consulate of Atlanta
- Italian Consulate (Miami)
- France through Centuries