Academic Writing

Selected Academic Articles and Book Chapters

“Sicily, Western Empire, and Orientalist Heteronormativity in Antonio Da Rho’s Philippic Against Antonio Panormita (1431/32).” I Tatti Studies 28, no. 2 (2025): 145–63.

“The Paradoxical Colosseum: A Mesocosm for Early Modern Rome,” w/ Kristi Cheramie. Land, Air, Sea: Environment in the Early Modern Period, Jennifer Ferng and Lauren Jacobi, eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2024), 57-80.

“Dido and Laura in Carthage: White Purity, Epidermal Race, and Sexual Violence in Petrarch’s Africa,” postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies. 14:1(2023): 89–118.

“The Poetics of Gentilezza in the Fiore and the Emergence of Dante’s Political Vision before the Exile,” Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies, 5 (2022): 94-118.

“Edward W. Said, Renaissance Orientalism, and Imaginative Geographies of a Classical Mediterranean,” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. 65 (Summer 2021), 483-535.

“Pope as Arbiter: Schism and Sectarianism as Motivations for Eastern Rite Christians Traveling to Early Modern Rome,” in A Companion to Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome, edited by Emily Michelson and Matthew Coneys (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 56-88.

“Between hermits and heretics: Maronite religious renewal and the Turk in Catholic travel accounts of Lebanon after the Council of Trent,” in Travel and Conflict in the Early Modern World, edited by Gabor Gelleri and Rachel Willie (London: Routledge, 2020), 108-126.

“The Converting Sea: Religious Change and Cross-Cultural Interaction in the Early Modern Mediterranean,” History Compass 17:1 (January 2019).

“Wayward Leadership and the Breakdown of Reform on the Failed Jesuit Mission to the Maronites, 1577-1579,” Journal of Early Modern History. 22:4 (Summer 2018): 215-237.

“How to become a Jesuit Crypto-Jew: The Self-Confessionalization of Giovanni Battista Eliano through the Textual Artifice of Conversion,” The Sixteenth Century Journal 48:1 (Spring 2017): 3-26.

“Fighting Enemies and Finding Friends: The Cosmopolitan Pragmatism of Jesuit Residences in the Ottoman Levant,” Renaissance Studies 31:1 (February 2017): 66-86.

“The Society of Jesus and the Early Modern Christian Orient,” Jesuit Historiography Online (2016).

“Jesuit Thalassology Reconsidered: The Mediterranean Geopolitics of the Jesuit Presence in Seventeenth-Century Ethiopia,” Mediterranean Historical Review 31:01 (June 2016): 43-64.

Clines has reviewed books in academic journals, including Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, Journal of Early Modern History, The Journal of Jesuit Studies, H-War, The Mediterranean Seminar, Quaderni d’Italianistica, Renaissance et Réforme, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Quarterly, and The Sixteenth Century Journal. He has also translated historical and contemporary writings between Italian and English.