Dr. D'Antuono is a specialist in Spanish Golden Age literature (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) with a concentration in the theater and in Italian literature (thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries) with emphasis on the novella, the commedia dell'arte, scripted theater and opera libretti.

She is the author of a book, Boccaccio's Novelle in the Theater of Lope de Vega (Madrid: Porrúa Turanzas, 1983) and some thirty articles on Italo-Hispanic literary and cultural relations.

She continues to work on, Calderón's Theater in Italy, 1642-1800, a
project for which she has received grant support from Saint Mary's College and from the American Philosophical Society. One critic has described her research as impressive for its "cogency, professionalism and insight."

An internationally respected scholar, Dr. D'Antuono is the only American hispanist working on Spanish Golden Age drama in Italy both as source for the commedia dell'arte and the seventeenth-century Italian theater. She regularly presents sessions on Italo-Hispanic Baroque literary relations and on the commedia dell'arte at professional meetings.

At Saint Mary's College she teaches introductory, intermediate and advanced-level Italian language courses as well as courses in Italian literature.

For a list of Prof. D'Antuono's publications, please click here.