Overview
Renaissance theater, epic, romance, and treatise; women writers, medical and literary understandings of the body, Venetian culture, Renaissance fashion, medicine in early modern Italy, New World's pharmacy, and psychoanalysis.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor Emerita of Romance Studies
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2019 - Present
Romance Studies,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
:Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy
Journal Article The Journal of Modern History · June 1, 2023 Full text CiteRethinking Medical Humanities: Perspectives from the Arts and the Social Sciences
Book · December 19, 2022 Medical Humanities may be broadly conceptualized as a discipline wherein medicine and its specialties intersect with those of the humanities and social sciences. As such it is a hybrid area of study where the impact of disease and healing science on cultur ... Full text CiteThe bio-turn in history writing: Death, last wishes, and lasting wishes
Chapter · December 19, 2022 Full text CiteRecent Grants
The Nose Job: Plastic Surgery and Bioethics in the Renaissance
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2008 - 2009Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga's Dilemma, researching female physiology and reproduction in the early modern period
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2002 - 2003The Equivocal Body: The Castrato in Early Modern Discourses in Italy
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2000 - 2001View All Grants