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Stephanie Jed

Professor Emerita

Stephanie Jed

Italian and Comparative Literature

Italian early modern literature; medieval Italian literature; Italian humanism; comparative early modern constructions of knowledge (Italian, French, English, Spanish); paleography, the history of libraries, the history of writing; gender studies; interdisciplinary theory; language acquisition; language and movement; neuroscience and literature.

Wings for Our Courage: Gender, Erudition, and Republican Thought book cover

Books

  • Wings for our Courage: Gender, Erudition, and Republican Thought. University of California Press, FlashPoints series, 2011.

  • Chaste Thinking: The Rape of Lucretia and the Birth of Humanism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.

Articles

  • "Social Spaces of History: Gender, Erudition, and the Italian Nation." In Shemek and Wyatt, eds. Writing Relations: American Scholars in Italian Archives (Firenze: Olschki Editore, 2008): 165-190.

  • "Arcangela Tarabotti and Gabriel Naudé: Libraries, Taxonomies and Ragion di Stato." In Elissa B. Weaver, ed., Arcangela Tarabotti: A Literary Nun in Baroque Venice (Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2006): 129-140.

  • "Proof and Transnational Rhetorics: Opening Up the Conversation," History and Theory 40:3 (2001): 372-384.

  • "Relations of Prose: Knights Errant in the Archives of Early Modern Italy" The Project of Prose in the Early Modern West, eds. Fowler and Greene. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

  • "The Tenth Muse: Gender, Rationality, and the Marketing of Knowledge," Women, "Race," and Writing in the Early Modern Period, eds. Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker. London and New York: Routledge, 1994.

  • "Making History Straight: Collecting and Recording in Sixteenth Century Italy," Bucknell Review, 35.2 (1992): 104-120.

  • "Chastity on the Page: A Feminist Use of Paleography," Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance, eds. Marilyn Migiel and Juliana Schiesari. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.

  • "The Scene of Tyranny: Humanism and the History of Writing," in The Violence of Representation. London: Routledge, 1989.

  • Ph.D., Yale University