Professor Virginia Cox FBA

Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italian literature and culture; history of the reception of classical rhetoric, 13th to 16th centuries; gender history and women’s writing
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2022
Subjects
Literature, Medieval studies, Modern languages

Current post

Trinity College, University of Cambridge Senior Research Fellow

University of Cambridge Honorary Professor of Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture

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