Postdoctoral Research Fellow
As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the ‘CultPhil’ project, I aim to uncover women’s contributions to natural philosophy in seventeenth-century Italy and their transnational exchanges with female intellectuals. To this end, I will examine the philosophical dimensions of the hagiographies by Lucrezia Marinella (c.1571-1653) and Margherita Costa (1600-1657), as well as the writings of the international female members of the Paduan Accademia dei Ricovrati and the Roman Accademia dell’Arcadia. I have recently completed an AHRC-funded PhD in Italian at the Universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews, where I have also worked as a Teaching Assistant. My thesis, titled Faith and Feminism: Mysticism, Theology and the Bible in the Works of Moderata Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella, explores these authors’ dialogue with the querelle des femmes and the sacred sphere. Prior to my PhD, I received a BA in English (Birkbeck, University of London) and an MLitt in Women, Writing and Gender (University of St Andrews) in 2018 and 2019 respectively.
