CONTRIBUTOR:

Deanna Shemek

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Literature

INSTITUTION:

University of California, Santa Cruz

BIOGRAPHY:

Deanna Shemek is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy (1998) and has co-edited Phaethon’s Children: The Este Court and its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara (2005) and Writing Relations: American Scholars in Italian Archives (2008). She edited and co-translated Adriana Cavarero, Stately Bodies: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender (1995). While publishing essays on a range of Renaissance literary texts, Professor Shemek has been studying the correspondence of Isabella d’Este for many years. She and is editor and translator of the Selected Letters of Isabella d'Este (Toronto and Tempe AZ: 2016). She also co-directs an online project for study of the Italian Renaissance, IDEA: Isabella d'Este Archive http://isabelladeste.web.unc.edu