About

Julia L. Hairston’s work focuses on the intersection of literature and history in the Italian Renaissance, primarily as regards gender. She has published articles on Machiavelli, Ariosto, Leon Battista Alberti, and Tullia d’Aragona and co-edited two collections of essays, one devoted to gender issues in Italian culture (Peter Lang, 1996) and the other to the body in early modern Italy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). Hairston has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Hers is a bilingual edition of the poems and letters of Tullia d’Aragona for the Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series (CRRS & Iter, 2014) and a cluster of essays on gender in early modern Rome in a 2014 issue of I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance. Her current projects include co-editing a bilingual edition of d’Aragona’s The Wretch, Otherwise Known as Guerrino (Il Meschino, altramente detto il Guerrino) for the Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series, co-editing a collection of essays on women as readers in early modern Italy, and writing an intellectual biography on d’Aragona entitled The Thorny Laurel: Tullia d’Aragona as Woman of Letters. She lives in Rome, Italy.