James Coleman won a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation award

James Coleman, assistant professor of Italian in Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts, has won the Giles Constable Award from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Only one U.S. applicant to the foundation’s Venetian Research Program is selected for the year each year.

Coleman works on the literature and culture of Italy between the 14th and 18th centuries. The grant will support his latest book project, “Reading Archipelagos: Italian Humanism and Early Modern Books of Islands,” which will focus on the category of books known as “isolari.”

His last book, “A Sudden Frenzy,” won a 2023 American Association of Teachers of Italian Book Award and an honorable mention from the American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize.