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I was appointed Associate Professor at Durham in April 2019 and made Professor in July 2020. Hear more about The Grace of the Italian Renaissance and the Early Modern Keywords project here. As well as illuminating aspects of their work, I examine their presence in and impact on certain areas of anglophone culture, bringing them into trans-historical dialogue with writers including Shakespeare and Ali Smith. Other publications include Renaissance Keywords (2013) and Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Europe (2017). I am the author, too, of essays and articles on sixteenth-century Italian writers Ludovico Ariosto, Baldassare Castiglione, Vittoria Colonna and Tullia d’Aragona and on artists Michelangelo and Raphael. It was funded by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. With chapters dedicated to major as well as minor Renaissance protagonists, it explored grace as a complex keyword that conveys and connects the most pressing ethical, social and aesthetic debates of that period in time. My first book (2007) explored the treatment of women in Ariosto’s literary masterpiece, while my most recent book The Grace of the Italian Renaissance (2020) ranged more widely across the cultural landscape of early modern Italy. Within that, I contribute to evolving scholarly conversations about translation and adaptation across languages, between media and over time. My work is informed by various literary, cultural and art theoretical approaches, engaging in particular with gender studies, reception theory, cultural materialism, philological modes of enquiry and cognitively-inflected criticism. (email at research concerns the connections between early modern Italian literature and the visual arts, seen in the context of cultural and social history and in a comparative European perspective. Departmental Rep (MLAC) in the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies