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
Elected 2022
Sixteenth & 17th-century literature & thought in Europe, especially France; the role played by various dimensions of language (eg concept-formation; tense-aspect) in the shaping of knowledge & belief.
Eighteenth and nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture; the design, organization, and meanings of time and space in Russia; the Europeanization of the Russian elite and its transnational practices
Petrarch, early Italian Renaissance and the classical tradition
