Participant Info

First Name
Anna
Last Name
Wainwright
Country
United States
State
NH
Affiliation
University of New Hampshire
Website URL
https://cola.unh.edu/person/anna-wainwright
Keywords
Italy, Renaissance Italy, Italian Renaissance, Renaissance women writers, Italian women writers, race in the Renaissance, early modern women and gender studies, Dante, Italian motherhood, Italian families, widowhood, mourning
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PhD
PhD

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About Me

Anna Wainwright (Ph.D., New York University) is Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Core Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of New Hampshire. Her research considers gender, race, politics, and emotion in medieval and early modern Italy. Her first book, “Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in Medieval and Renaissance Italy” (forthcoming, University of Delaware Press, 2025) investigates the cultural and political significance of widowhood in early modern Italy, stretching from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to the women poets of the Counter-Reformation; her publications include articles in The Italianist, Religions, and Spenser Studies. She is the translator of Leonora Bernardi’s pastoral tragicomedy “Clorilli”, (University College London Press, 2023) and co-editor of the volumes “Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation” (Delaware, 2020), “Teaching Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide” (ACMRS, 2023), and “The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden: Women, Politics and Reform in Renaissance Italy” (Brill, 2023). Her research has been supported by awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Research Council of Norway, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

Recent Publications
Media Coverage
Country Focus
Italy
Expertise by Geography
Mediterranean, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
Medieval, Pre-17th century
Expertise by Topic
Book History, Family, Gender, Race, Religion, Sexuality, Women