Anna Wainwright (Ph.D., New York University) is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies and Core Faculty in Women's and Gender Studies. Her research considers gender, race, politics, and emotion in medieval and early modern Italy. Her current book project, “Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance,” 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) and the 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). She is researcher on the collaborative research project "The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden: Women, Politics and Reform in Renaissance Italy," funded by a three-year grant from the Research Council of Norway (2018–2022). She has held awards and grants from the American Foundation of Savoy Orders, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and is a delegate to the MLA Assembly and chair of the Bibliography Committee for the Dante Society of America.
