A book by Ingrid D. Rowland, a visiting professor in theUniversityofNotre Dame 91视频 of Architecture鈥檚 Rome 91视频 program, has received the only honorable mention in the 2005 competition for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian 91视频. Titled 鈥淭he Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery,鈥� the book was published last year by theUniversityofChicago Press.
The Scaglione Prize is awarded by the Modern Language Association of America biennially (alternating with the Howard R. Marraro Prize, with which it previously was presented jointly) for an outstanding book by a member of the association in the field of Italian literature or comparative literature involving Italian. The $2,000 prize was awarded to Raymond B. Waddington from theUniversityofCalifornia,Davis.
An associate professor of art history at theUniversityofChicago, Rowland writes and lectures on classical antiquity, the Renaissance and the age of the Baroque. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and is the author of 鈥淭he Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth Century Rome鈥� and other publications, including a translation of Vitruvius鈥� 鈥淭en Books of Architecture.鈥�
Rowland鈥檚 other honors include the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching atChicago. She has taught at UCLA andColumbiaUniversity, as well as in theRomeprograms of St. Mary鈥檚 College and theUniversityofCalifornia,Irvine.
A graduate ofPomonaCollege, Rowland earned her master鈥檚 and doctoral degrees in Greek literature and classical archaeology atBrynMawrCollege. **
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