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Drawing on his experience facilitating Dante workshops in prisons in Italy, Indonesia, and the U.S., Jenkins will discuss ways in which the Divine Comedy is viewed by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated readers who find compelling similarities between Dante’s journey out of hell and their own journeys out of prison.
Ron Jenkins is a recipient of Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships. He has facilitated theater workshops inspired by Dante’s poetry in prisons, with support from the R.F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights, the Asian Cultural Council, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. Jenkins has written books on theater and social justice, and his articles, including “Transformation Behind Bars,” have been published by The New York Times, The Jakarta Post, and The Yale ISM Review. He has translated and directed plays by the Nobel laureate Dario Fo for productions at the Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, and the New York Theatre Workshop. His documentary plays have been commissioned by the Mellon Foundation, the U.S. State Department, the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. A professor of theater at Wesleyan University, Jenkins continued his Dante prison projects as a 2022–2023 Fellow at the Yale Divinity School’s Institute of Sacred Music, where he has been teaching courses on Dante since 2015. Jenkins is an honorary fellow of the Dante Society of America.
Free and open to the public. Registration is required for both in person and virtual attendance. For additional information, please contact cacs@fordham.edu.
Co-sponsored by the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies, the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and the Center for Medieval Studies.
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