Kate Driscoll

Socializing Tasso: Women Readers and the Lyric Accolades of Interdependence - Annual Conference · March 2025 International Meeting or Conference Renaissance Society of America, Boston

Utopia incognita: Tasso and the Decolonial Imagination - Annual Conference · January 2025 International Meeting or Conference MLA, New Orleans

Baroque Ariosto: Narrative-Operatic varietà in Il Palazzo incantato (Rossi-Rospigliosi, 1642) · November 2024 International Meeting or Conference Early Modern Rome 5, Rome, Italy

L’ospitalità letteraria: Torquato Tasso e le sue lettrici · October 2024 Lecture University of Zurich - Zurigo in italiano, Zurich, Switzerland

Accoglienza and Renewal in Torquato Tasso’s Rome (1592–1595) - Annual Conference · June 2024 International Meeting or Conference American Association for Italian Studies, Sorrento, Italy

Listening for the Snatch: The Trouble with ‘Hereness’ in the Harshness of Tasso - Annual Conference · March 2024 International Meeting or Conference Renaissance Society of America, Chicago

Epic Errancy: The Renaissance Virago and her Macabre Genealogies - FHI faculty lecture series · November 2023 Lecture Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Written in Gold: Mining Women’s Poetic Labor in the Renaissance its Reception - Sixteenth Century Society Conference · October 2023 International Meeting or Conference Baltimore

The Stranger and the Star: Masking Torquato Tasso in the Diva’s Literary Imagination - Tasso Forever Conference · May 2023 International Meeting or Conference Sant'Anna Institute, Sorrento, Italy

RSA Conference Chair’s Panel: Fellowships in the U.S. and Elsewhere · March 2023 International Meeting or Conference Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Renaissance Intermediality across Cultures (roundtable) · March 2023 International Meeting or Conference Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Loss and its Reverberance: Lament and Polyvocality in Dante and Ariosto · March 2023 International Meeting or Conference Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico

‘E quando è tratto, e se ne fa lavoro,/ è così ricco e bel, come l’altr’oro’: Reception at Work in Women’s Eighteenth-Century Italian Lyric · January 2023 International Meeting or Conference MLA Annual Conference, San Francisco

'Fatto servo ben vil dell’altrui glorie/argomento felice a nuove storie’: Lament as Counternarrative on the New World Stage - The Performance of Genre across Renaissance Europe and Beyond · September 2022 International Meeting or Conference UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Renaissances Elsewhere · May 2022 International Meeting or Conference American Association for Italian Studies, online conference

Captive Utopias: Plotting the Paradise-Prison on the Island Epic Stage · April 2022 International Meeting or Conference Renaissance Society of America, Dublin, Ireland

'Pour être dans les fers n’es-tu plus souveraine?’: Captive Cartographies of Race and Empire in Meyerbeer’s "Vasco de Gama" - Music and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century · December 2021 International Meeting or Conference Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, Italy

Decolonizing Dissonance between Tenochtitlán and La Serenissima: Collective Historiography in Vivaldi’s "Motezuma" (1733), - Opera Studies Conference · June 2021 International Meeting or Conference University of Bayreuth, online conference

'Con licenza del gran padre Dante’: Puccini’s "Trittico" and the American Premiere of the Commedia in Opera, from New York to Buenos Aires - Tra liti sì lontani: Dante for the Americas · May 2021 International Meeting or Conference Dante Society of America, online conference

Thinking Race with the Early Moderns · May 2021 International Meeting or Conference American Association for Italian Studies, online conference

Curse, Wail, Hiss, Roar: What Do Furious Men Sound Like? · April 2021 International Meeting or Conference Renaissance Society of America, online conference

Cries of Conquest: Men’s Wounded Song and the Gendered Politics of Lament - Masculinities in the Premodern World: Continuities, Change, and Contradictions · November 2020 International Meeting or Conference University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Armida at the World’s Edge: Refugee Statecraft as Regal Stagecraft in Baroque Opera and Beyond - 'Qual musico gentil': Torquato Tasso and Music · April 2020 International Meeting or Conference University of Massachusetts Amherst, online conference

'La voce afflitta movendo, disse le parole estreme’: Sonic Textures and Affect Theories from Tasso to Monteverdi · January 2020 International Meeting or Conference Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington

Unsealed Potential: Isabella Andreini’s Lettere and the Evolution of a Genre - Society for Italian Studies UK Biennial Conference · June 2019 International Meeting or Conference University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Tradurre il pensiero di Edith Simcox (1844–1901), scrittrice e femminista · June 2019 International Meeting or Conference Traduction, au carrefour de la Littérature Comparée et de la Linguistique Contrastive, Villa Finaly, Florence, Italy

Epic Patience and Exemplary Vocality in Louise-Geneviève Gillot de Sainctonge’s "Griselde" (1714) and Carlo Goldoni-Antonio Vivaldi’s "Griselda" (1735) · March 2019 International Meeting or Conference Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

‘Ecco Tarquinia viene, Amor s’appressa’: Tarquinia Molza across Tasso’s "Rime" and "Dialoghi" · March 2019 International Meeting or Conference Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, Canada

Heiress to Fiction: Marfisa d’Este from Literary Texts to Macabre Fantasies · November 2018 International Meeting or Conference Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Envoicing Female Eloquence on the Seicento Stage: Musical-Theatrical Interpretations of Ariosto’s Alcina and Tasso’s Armida - Intersections: Between Music and Theatre in Seicento Italy · September 2018 International Meeting or Conference University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

'Fui nobil servo ed compagno’: Female Patronage and the Poet’s Liberation in Tasso’s "Alle Signore Principesse" · June 2018 International Meeting or Conference American Association for Italian Studies, Sorrento, Italy

Strategizing the Supplicant’s Voice: Torquato Tasso’s Plea for Female Patronage in "Alle Signore Principesse di Ferrara" · March 2018 International Meeting or Conference Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Pasadena, California

Marvel in the Mirror: Tasso’s Armida between Poetry and Poetic Theory · April 2016 International Meeting or Conference UC Berkeley Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Symposium, Berkeley, California

New Tunes for the Strains of Love: Veronica Franco and the Figure of the Female Orpheus · October 2015 International Meeting or Conference UC Berkeley Italian Studies Department, Berkeley, California

Il viaggio santo di Torquato Tasso: Rome in Tasso’s Late Poetry · May 2012 International Meeting or Conference NYU Florence - Italian Studies Symposium, Florence, Italy

Service to the Profession

RSA Boston, Conference Program Committee · November 2024 - March 2025 Committee Service Renaissance Society of America,

RSA Chicago, Conference Program Committee · August 2023 - March 2024 Event/Organization Administration Renaissance Society of America,

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender Liaison to the Sixteenth Century Society Conference · March 2023 Event/Organization Administration

Associate Editor - Italian Studies Channel · September 2022 Event/Organization Administration New Books Network,

RSA San Juan, Conference Program Committee · 2022 Committee Service Renaissance Society of America,

Managing Editor · June 2021 - December 2022 Editorial Activities I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance,

Co-Director - Critical Race, Diasporas and Migration Caucus · May 2021 Committee Service American Association for Italian Studies,

Executive Committee Member of the “Opera and Musical Performance” Forum · January 2021 Committee Service Modern Language Association,

Advisory Board Member · 2020 Committee Service Tasso in Music Project: Digital Editions of the Settings of Torquato Tasso’s Poetry, c. 1570–1640, https://www.tassomusic.org/