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Professor of Italian; Affiliated Professor with Comparative Literature; Vice Provost for Academic Affairs; Faculty Director, The Humanities Initiative at NYU
Ph.D. 1985, (comparative literature), Johns Hopkins; B.A. 1978 (English), College of William and Mary
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Research Interests: late medieval and early modern Italy and Europe, particularly issues related to gender and religion; history of theatre; literature of 19th-century Sicily
Affiliations: Renaissance Society of America, disciplinary representative for Italian Studies; Modern Language Society, executive committee for Comparative Literature, Renaissance and Baroque; Villa I Tatti, Advisory Committee
Fellowships/Honors: NEH/Newberry Library Fellowship; Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, Award for Best Translation; Folger Shakespeare Library Summer Fellowship; U. of Wisconsin Institute for Research in the Humanities Fellowship; Spenser Society Award for Best Article on Edmund Spenser
Selected Works:
Authored and Edited Books:
(forthcoming) The Signs of Others: The Writings of Saint Catherine of Siena
(forthcoming) Complete Poems of Gaspara Stampa (translated and edited)
Medusa's Gaze: Essays on Gender, Literature, and Aesthetics in the Italian Renaissance: In Honor of Robert J. Rodini (co-ed. with Paul Ferrara and Eugenio Giusti), a special edition of Italiana XI, 2005.
The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume C, on Early Modern Europe (co-edited with David Damrosch, 2003)
Sacred Narratives: The Poetry of Lucrezia Tornabuoni de'Medici (translated and edited, 2002)
Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World (co-edited with Margaret Beissinger and Susanne Wofford, 1999)
Writing and Vulnerability in the Late Renaissance (1993)
Selected Essays and Book Chapters:
"Teaching Lucrezia's Tornabuoni's Troublesome Women," in Teaching Early Modern Women, ed. Albert Rabil, U. Of Chicago Press, 2007.
"The Rape of the Sabines and the Origins of Early Modern Theatre," in Theatre Without Borders: Early Modernities, ed. Robert Henke and Eric Nicholson, Ashgate, 2007
"Cellini, Michelangelo, and the Myth of Inimitability," in Benvenuto Cellini: Sculptor, Goldsmith, Writer, ed. Margeret Gallucci and Paolo Rossi, Cambridge UP, 2004: pp. 7-26
"Par Accident: The Public Work of Early Modern Theatre", in Reading the Early Modern Passions, ed. Gail Kern Paster, Katherine Rowe, and Mary Floyd-Wilson, U. Penn Press, 2004, pp. 253-72
"Charitable Women: Hans Baron's Civic Renaissance Revisited," in Rinascimento, Vol. XLIII (2004) pp. 287-307
"Aristotle, Humanism, and Public Space", for Aristotle and the Renaissance, ed. Ullrich Langer, Droz, 2003.
"Gossip and Women in Renaissance Drama," Italian Women/Urban Space, ed. Janet Smarr, U. of Delaware Press, 2002.
"The Work of Local Culture: Interpreting Ancient Pastoral", solicited article for Graven Images, ed. Andrew Weiner, U. of Wisconsin Press, 2002.
"Caterina da Siena and the Legacy of Humanism", in Perspectives on Early Modern and Modern Intellectual History, ed. Joseph Marino and Melinda Schlitt, U. of Rochester Press, 2001: 116-44.
"Theatre's Social Uses: Machiavelli and the Spectacle of Infamy", Renaissance Quarterly, LIII, fall 2000: 656-86.
"Tasso's Trees: Epic and Local Culture," in Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World, U. of California Press, 1999: pp. 108-130.
"Gender (Un)performed: The Advent of the Actress on the Early Modern Stage"; Italian Culture, 1997
"Women at the Windows: Commedia dell'Arte Practices in Early Modern Italy," Theatre Journal, October 1997
"Mystical Enunciations: Mary, the Devil, and Quattrocento Spirituality", Annali d'Italianistica, 1995
"Reasoning Away Colonialism: Tasso and the Production of the Gerusalemme Liberata," South Central Review, 10:2 (1993): 100-14
"Colonizing Peasants: The Rape of the Sabines and Renaissance Theater," Renaissance Drama 23 (1992): 113-38
"The Work in the Marketplace," Bucknell Review, special issue on "Reconfiguring the Renaissance," 1992: 19-31
"Jacobean Poetry and Lyric Disappointment," in Soliciting Interpretation: Literature and Theory in Seventeenth-Century England, ed. K. Maus and E. Harvey, U. of Chicago Press, 1990, pp. 174-98.
"Silencing Partenope: The Origins of Culture in Sannazaro's Arcadia," Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Binghamton, N.Y., 1990, pp. 22-37
"Veiling the Stage: The Discourse of Innocence in Renaissance Drama," Theatre Journal 41 (March 1989): 16-29.
"Spenser, Virgil, and the Politics of Poetic Labor," English Literary History 55 (spring 1988): 53-77.
"The Curse of Babel: The Orlando Furioso and Epic (Mis)Appropriation," Modern Language Notes 103 (January 1988): 154-71.
"Purloined Passages: Giraldi, Tasso, and the Pastoral Debates," Modern Language Notes 99 (January 1984): 101-24.
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