Bianca Calabresi
Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature
My Contact Info
602 Philosophy Hall, Mail Code: 4927, United States
Office Hours
Monday?12:00P.M.-1:00P.M.
Thursday?2:00P.M.-4:00P.M.?or?by appointment
+1 212 854 3215 [email protected] Bianca Calabresi
Research Interests
16th- and 17th-Century Book History and Women’s Cultural Production in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Americas History of Print Technologies Early Modern Gender and sexuality Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism Biography
Bianca Finzi-Contini Calabresi received her Ph.D. from Columbia in 2003 with a dissertation on the typography of the early modern printed play.? She has published on alternative women’s writing systems, Shakespeare and Italian print culture, and red ink as simulated blood in?
Renaissance Drama,?
Critical Survey,?and many edited collections.?She was awarded the first?Whiting Foundation Teaching Fellowship?from Kenyon College in 2001-2002, where she taught from 1999-2004, and served as Divisional Representative for the MLA Executive?Committee for Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature?from 2003-2005. ?A Haarlow-Cotsen Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton from 2004-2007, she was a 2008-2009 Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia, while teaching at Fairleigh Dickinson University from 2008-2013. ?She has taught Comparative Literature and Literature Humanities for the department since Fall 2013. ???Her book?
BLOOD?WRITES: Bleeding on the Page from Marlowe to Milton, is under consideration for publication; her next project situates Veronica Franco’s
?Rime?
di diversi eccellentissimi auttori?within early modern fictions of Lepanto 1571.
Courses Taught
Fall 2019
4 pts, UN3816