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| Biographical Info of Valeria FinucciValeria Finucci received a "Laurea" summa cum laude from the University of Rome and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She taught at Smith College and Gonzaga University before coming to Duke with stints at Penn and Johns Hopkins after. Her main interests are Renaissance literature and culture, theater, women's work, early modern medicine and pharmacy, psychoanalysis, and genre studies. And she loves everything connected to Venice. She has written on femininity and power in Renaissance discourses in The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto (Stanford, 1992) and on issues of masculinity and paternity in The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance (Duke, 2003). She is the editor of Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso (Duke, 1999); and co-editor of Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature (Princeton, 1994) and of Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History (Duke, 2001). Building on her interest in genre and gender study, she has edited a 16th century female verse epic, Moderata Fonte's Tredici canti del Floridoro (Mucchi, 1995); now in English too as Floridoro, a Chivalric Romance (U. of Chicago P., 2006); has brought out the manuscript of the only female prose romance of the Italian Renaissance, Giulia Bigolina's Urania (Bulzoni, 2002), which she then translated into English and published as Urania, a Romance (U of Chicago P, 2005); and has worked on the genre of early modern female tragedy with her edition of Valeria Miani's Celinda, a Tragedy, the first tragedy by a woman writer in Italian (Toronto: CMRS, 2010). She is co-editor of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies and has edited two special issues of the journal: In the Footsteps of Petrarch (Fall 2005) and Mapping the Mediterranean (Winter 2007), as well as yearly open topic issues since 2005. Petrarch is also the subject of her collection, Petrarca: Canoni, Esemplarità (Bulzoni, 2006). Recently, her love of Venetian costume books and university students' alba amicorum has resulted in a co-edited book in English and Italian, Mores Italiae: Costume and Life in the Renaissance // Costumi e scene di vita del Rinascimento (Biblos, 2007). She is currently the director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. | |
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