Education
PhD in Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley (2008)
MA in Italian, University of Notre Dame (2002)
BA in French and Italian, University of Texas, Austin (2000)
2016-2017: Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fellow, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies
http://itatti.harvard.edu/people/aileen-fengPublications
Monographs & scholarly books
Writing Beloveds: Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
http://www.utppublishing.com/Writing-Beloveds-Humanist-Petrarchism-and-the-Politics-of-Gender.html
The Poetry of Burchiello (ca. 1404-1449): Deep-fried Nouns, Hunchbacked Pumpkins, and Other Nonsense. Introduction, translation and notes by Fabian Alfie & Aileen A. Feng. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2017.
https://acmrs.org/publications/catalog/poetry-burchiello-deep-fried-nouns-hunchbacked-pumpkins-and-other-nonsense
Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry. Ed. Unn Falkeid & Aileen A. Feng. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. (Now published by Routledge)
https://www.routledge.com/Rethinking-Gaspara-Stampa-in-the-Canon-of-Renaissance-Poetry/Falkeid-Feng/p/book/9781472427069
Second monograph (in progress):
Feminism’s First Paradox: Female Misogyny and Homosociality in Early Modern Italy
Peer-refereed Articles & Chapters in Scholarly Books
“Editors’ Introduction.”
The Poetry of Burchiello (ca. 1404-1449): Deep-fried Nouns, Hunchbacked Pumpkins, and Other Nonsense. Trans. and notes by Fabian Alfie and Aileen A. Feng. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS Press, 2017 . 50% authorship.
“Editors’ Introduction.”
Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance
Poetry. Ed. Unn Falkeid and Aileen A. Feng.
Women and Gender in the Early
Modern World Series. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. pp. 1-12. 50% authorship.
“Desiring Subjects: Mimetic Desire and Female
Invidia in Gaspara Stampa’s
Rime.”
Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry. Ed. Unn Falkeid & Aileen A. Feng. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. pp. 75-91.
“’Volto di Medusa’: Monumentalizing the self in Petrarch’s
Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta.”
Forum Italicum 47.3 (November 2013): 494 – 518.
“In Laura’s Shadow: Casting Female Humanists as Petrarchan Beloveds in Quattrocento Letters.”
The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature: Grief, Guilt, and Hypocrisy. Ed. Jeff Rider and Jamie Friedman.
New Middle Ages Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. pp. 223-247.
