{"id":36686,"date":"2019-08-30T19:26:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T19:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cas.umw.edu\/modernlanguages\/?page_id=36686"},"modified":"2025-08-19T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:07:39","slug":"brooke-di-lauro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cas.umw.edu\/modernlanguages\/brooke-di-lauro\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooke Di Lauro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--media-float-right umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">modern languages and literatures<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">Brooke Di Lauro<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-professor-of-french\">Professor of French<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cas.umw.edu\/modernlanguages\/files\/2019\/08\/DonaldsonBrooke06-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"117\" height=\"147\" src=\"http:\/\/cas.umw.edu\/modernlanguages\/files\/2019\/08\/DonaldsonBrooke06-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36687\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Brooke Di Lauro earned her M.A. (2000), M.Phil. (2002), and Ph.D. (2006) in French literature from Yale University. Her specialty is Renaissance poetry, but she is also interested in the interconnections between literature and the visual arts.&nbsp; Her five articles on Maurice Sc\u00e8ve\u2019s&nbsp;<em>D\u00e9lie<\/em>&nbsp;have appeared in&nbsp;<em>Yale<\/em>&nbsp;<em>French Studies<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Sixteenth Century Journal<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Emblematica<\/em>&nbsp;among others. Dr. Di Lauro has also reviewed articles for&nbsp;<em>French Studies<\/em>&nbsp;and has published ten book reviews, primarily for&nbsp;<em>Renaissance et R\u00e9forme<\/em>.&nbsp; She is currently working on a translation of the 445 poems of the&nbsp;<em>D\u00e9lie<\/em>, only a tenth of which have ever been translated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Di Lauro sits on the board of the Fredericksburg-Fr\u00e9jus Sister City Association, and every summer she runs a month-long study abroad program in Aix-en-Provence and Paris.&nbsp; Since the&nbsp;fall of 2024 Dr. Di Lauro has served as well as Associate Director of the UMW Honors Program.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cas.umw.edu\/modernlanguages\/files\/2025\/08\/Brooke-Di-Lauro-CV-2024-2025.docx\">Di Lauro\u2019s CV<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Located in Combs Hall \u2013 Room 224 and Lee Hall \u2013 Honors Commons, Room 317<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: <a href=\"bdilauro@umw.edu\">bdilauro@umw.edu<\/a><br>(540) 654-1988<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of French Brooke Di Lauro earned her M.A. (2000), M.Phil. 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