Inspiration Unplugged featuring George Ferzoco

George Ferzoco is Adjunct Senior Instructor at the University of Calgary’s Department of Classics and Religion, and Research Fellow at the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of Bristol (U.K.). He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London, U.K.) and is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists. In 2021, George was invited by the University of Toronto’s Department of Italian Studies to be its Emilio Goggio Visiting Professor; commemorating the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, he helped organize multilingual readings of Dante’s Inferno along with interviews and discussions with figures such as novelist Margaret Atwood and former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson. Most of George’s publications are on aspects of religious culture such as medieval preaching, saints’ lives, and canonization. His work has received medals from the Regional Council of Tuscany and distinctions from learned societies. George has taught and published extensively on Dante, with invitations to lecture in North America, the U.K., Ireland, France, Italy and as far as South Africa and Australia.

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