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| Anne Jacobson Schutte, social
historian, Venice Since 1992 she has been Professor of History, University of Virginia. She has worked especially on the relation of religion and culture, reflected in her publications. Her first book was Pier Paolo Vergerio: The Making of an Italian Reformer (1977, published in Italian 1988). Her latest is Aspiring Saints: Pretense of Holiness, Inquisition, and Gender in the Venetian Republic, 1618-1750 (2001). In connection with the latter she published a critical edition: Cecilia Ferrazzi, Autobiografia di una santa mancata (1990), and translated that text for "The Other Voice," Cecilia Ferrazzi, Autobiography of an Aspiring Saint (1996). |
Barbara Harris, social historian,
London Since 1999 she has been Professor of History and Women's Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was a founding member of the Curriculum in Women's Studies which she directed 1992-99 and is currently directing once again. Two of her earlier books dealt with women, their professions and the balancing of career and motherhood (1978, 1984). More recently she has published a number of articles on women in the English Renaissance and most recently her book length study, English Aristocratic Women 1450-1550: Marriage and Family, Property and Careers (2002). |
Elizabeth Goldsmith, social
historian, Paris Since 1999 she has been Professor of French at Boston University. She is author or editor of several books on women in seventeenth-century France: Exclusive Conversation: The Art of Interaction in Seventeenth-Century France (1988) and Publishing Women's Autobiography in France, 1642-1720: From Voice to Print (2001); she has also edited Writing the Female Voice: Essays on Epistolary Literature (1989) and (with Dena Goodman) Going Public: Women and Publishing in Early Modern France (1995). |
| Virginia Cox, literary historian
and critic, Venice Since 2000 Senior Lecturer in Italian, Cambridge University, and Fellow of Christ's College; from January 2003 Professor of Italian, New York University. She has published a major study of Renaissance dialogue (1992) and, more recently, an essay "Seen but not Heard: The Role of Women Speakers in Cinquecento Literary Dialogue," in Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society (2000). She has also written "Fiction, 1560-1650," for The Cambridge History of Italian Women's Writing (2000). She is currently writing a book-length study of early modern Italian women writers. She has translated two volumes for "The Other Voice" series, one published: Moderate Fonte, The Worth of Women (1997); and another now in press, Maddalena Campiglia's Flori. |
Anne Lake Prescott, literary
critic/historian, London Since 1979 she has been Professor of English at Barnard College and nonvoting member of the English Department at Columbia University. She has published widely on major French and English Renaissance writers, including French Poets and the English Renaissance (1978) and, more recently, Imagining Rabelais in Renaissance England (1998). Most recently she has coedited, with Betty Travitsky, Female and Male Voices: An Anthology of Renaissance Texts (2000). |
Erica Harth, literary critic/historian,
Paris Since 1992 she has been Professor of Humanities and Women's Studies, Brandeis University. Her earlier publications include Ideology and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France (1983). More recently she has published Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime (1992). She has also written a number of articles on women, in seventeenth-century France and in other times and places. |