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: Widowhood, Gender and Community in Italian Renaissance Literature”, 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 "Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation" (Delaware, 2020), "Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide" (ACMRS 2022), and The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden: Women, Politics and Reform in Renaissance Italy" (Brill 2022). 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 Social Media Liaison for the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender, delegate to the MLA Assembly, and serves on the Bibliography Committee for the Dante Society of America.
