Gender, Race and Representation in the Renaissance

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard about the disturbing killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breona Taylor and George Floyd. While the details of each incident differ, they are part of a much larger system of institutionalized racism and white supremacy in the United States. I’m a white woman, thus part of the system. …

Building Renaissance Monsters

May is monster month, so I thought we’d take a break from the pandemic and look at the relationships between gender, monsters and buildings in the Renaissance. I’ll focus on the Hall of the Giants at the Palazzo Te, the subject of my book, Gender, Space and Experience at the Renaissance Court: Performance and Practice …

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