Please note, this event was initally erroneously advertised with the wrong date! The talk is on the 13th February, and not 14th, as previously stated!  Apologies!

DEANNA SHEMEK is Professor of Italian at the University of California, Irvine and co-director of the Isabella d’Este Archive (IDEA). A nationally recognized scholar of early modern Italian literature, she has wide-ranging interests in early modern feminism; humanism and gender culture; early modern literacy and non-canonical producers of writing (women, children, marginalized communities); and a host of other provocative topics. In 2013 she served as a convener for the UCHRI residential working group Digital Isabella d’Este: An Open-Access Online Research Forum. She has recently been awarded a 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities grant for $99,897 for her work on IDEA.