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| Kate Driscoll, Assistant Professor
 Kate Driscoll is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University. A multidisciplinary scholar of early modern Italy, Europe, and their global contacts and contexts, her research areas include literary and critical theory, women’s and gender studies, cultural and performance history, and musicology.
Her first book is currently in progress. Tasso among the Muses: Reading and Writing Women in Early Modern Italy is a study of collaboration and collectivity between the last great poet of the Italian Renaissance, Torquato Tasso, and the women writers, patrons, and performers with whom he was in dialogue.
Dr. Driscoll is the author of "'La donna di poche parole' from Page to Stage: Envoicing Enchantment in Epic Poetry and Early Opera" (The Italianist, 41.1) and "Italian Chivalric Epic Poetry and Female Readers," published as part of Routledge Renaissance World. She is a co-author, along with Michela Ardizzoni and Carmela Scala, of "Building Space for Belonging: The Critical Race, Diasporas, and Migrations Caucus (CRDM)" (Forum Italicum, special issue on Critical Issues in Transnational Italian Studies, 2023).
She has two forthcoming essays in the leading journals in her field: "Heiress to Fiction: Marfisa and the Macabre Legacy of Chivalric Ferrara," forthcoming with Renaissance Quarterly, and "Curse, Growl, Hiss, Wail: The Limits of Language in Ariosto's Rodomonte," scheduled to appear in the Spring 2024 issue of I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance.
Her other publications are scheduled to appear in collections dedicated to the representations of female ambassadors in Torquato Tasso and Vivaldi, the history of premodern masculinity, and women readers in early modern Italy.
Before arriving at Duke, Dr. Driscoll was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colorado College and a postdoctoral research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin’s Cluster of Excellence, “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective.”
Her research has been supported by the Renaissance Society of America, American Council of Learned Societies, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Modern Language Association, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, German Excellence Initiative, and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
She is a co-editor of the Italian Studies Channel on the New Books Network. Her conversations with authors can be found here.
- Contact Info:
Teaching (Spring 2024):
- HISTORY 89S.01, FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP)
Synopsis
- Allen 318, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
- (also cross-listed as ITALIAN 89S.02, LIT 89S.01, MEDREN 89S.01, ROMST 89S.01)
- ITALIAN 545S.01, EPIC AS TRANSLATION
Synopsis
- Languages 312, W 03:20 PM-05:50 PM
- (also cross-listed as LIT 585S.01, MEDREN 645S.01, MUSIC 545S.01, ROMST 545S.01)
- Office Hours:
- Spring 2024: Tuesday, 1-3 pm.
- Education:
| Ph.D. | University of California, Berkeley | 2020 |
| M.A. | New York University | 2013 |
| B.Mus. | New York University | 2011 |
- Keywords:
- Epic poetry • Gender • Historiography • Music • Renaissance • Theater • Women poets
- Recent Publications
- Ardizzoni, M; Driscoll, K; Scala, C, Building space for belonging: The Critical Race, Diasporas, and Migrations Caucus (CRDM),
Forum Italicum, vol. 57 no. 2
(August, 2023),
pp. 476-487 [doi]
- Driscoll, K, Italian Chivalric Epic Poetry and Female Readers,
Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World
(October, 2022) [doi]
- Driscoll, K, ‘La donna di poche parole’ from Page to Stage: Envoicing Enchantment in Epic Poetry and Early Opera,
The Italianist, vol. 41 no. 1
(January, 2021),
pp. 1-22, Informa UK Limited [doi]
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