Background

Sandona, Mark was born on March 2, 1955, in Rockford, Illinois, United States. Son of Frank Peter and Jennie (Poli) Sandona.

Education

Bachelor in English summa cum laude, Northwestern University, 1977;

Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature, Harvard University, 1989.

Career

Instructor English and comparative literature, tutor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979-1983;

Instructor English, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine., 1984-1988;

Assistant professor, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine., 1988-1990;

Assistant professor, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland., 1990-1995;

Associate professor, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland., 1995-2002;

Professor, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland., 2002--present;

Chair of faculty senate Executive Committee, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland., 1993-1994 and 1996-1997.

Director of the MA in Humanities, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, 2002-2005.

Chair of the department of English, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, 2002--present.

Achievements

• Mark Sandona, a specialist in Medieval and Renaissance culture, particularly in the ages of Dante and Shakespeare, has published two books with his collaborator, art historian Anne Derbes: The Cambridge Companion to Giotto (Cambridge, 2004), and The Usurer's Heart: Giotto, Enrico Scrovegni and the Arena Chapel in Padua (2008).

Works

• book

  • The Usurer's Heart: Giotto, Enrico Scrovegni, and the Arena Chapel in Padua By Anne Derbes and Mark Sandona

    (At the turn of the fourteenth century, Enrico Scrovegni c...)

    2008
  • The Cambridge Companion to Giotto (Cambridge Companions to the History of Art)

    (The Cambridge Companion to Giotto serves as an introducti...)

    2004

Connections

Married Jane Gillespie Moncure, June 21, 1980. Children: Benedict, Olivia, Emilia.

Father:

Frank Peter Sandona

Mother:

Jennie (Poli) Sandona

Spouse:

Jane Gillespie Moncure

child:

Benedict Sandona

child:

Emilia Sandona

child:

Olivia Sandona