Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Carlotta Moro is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the ‘Cultures of Philosophy’ project at the University of Exeter. In this role, her research seeks to uncover women’s contributions to natural philosophy in seventeenth-century Italy, as well as their transnational exchanges with female intellectuals across Europe. She received her AHRC-funded PhD in Italian (co-supervised between the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh) at the University of St Andrews in 2024. Her thesis, titled Faith and Feminism: Mysticism, Theology and the Bible in the Works of Moderata Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella, explores Fonte’s and Marinella’s dialogue with both the querelle des femmes and the sacred sphere broadly construed, illuminating their engagement with the Bible, theology, and a female genealogy of martyrs, mystics, and foundresses of religious orders. She previously worked as a Teaching Assistant at the University of St Andrews and at the Italian Cultural Institute of Edinburgh. Beyond her research on early modern literature, Carlotta has also published on Carla Lonzi, Elena Ferrante, and on the receptionof Renaissance pro-woman thought within twentieth-century Italian feminism, and remains interested in these fields.
