Danielle Callegari is Associate Professor of Italian at Dartmouth College and author of the 2022 book Dante’s Gluttons from Amsterdam University Press. She is also writer-at-large for the magazine Wine Enthusiast, for which she writes long-form articles and reviews, and rates wines. Her popular-audience book A Bite-Sized History of Italy is just out from the New Press. And together with Katie Parla she co-hosts the Italian gastronomy podcast Gola. I asked Danielle how she found her way into public-facing writing, how she thinks about that work in relation to her academic writing, and what strategies she has for anyone who wants to start publishing in popular venues.

A bit of Danielle's popular writing:

Meet the Three Sisters Making Some of Sicily’s Most Exciting Wines

An Island-Hopping Guide to Sicily

Environmental Advocate of the Year Col D’Orcia Is Doing Something Unprecedented

An Eating and Drinking Guide to Venice, Minus the Tourists

Instagram: @drcallegariscabinet

Mentioned:

Daniel Mendelsohn, "Is the Aeneid a celebration of empire or a critique?"