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Education
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2006
Fields of Interest
Early-Modern Europe (especially the Cultural and Intellectual History of Renaissance Italy and England), Women and Gender, Humanism
Academic Profile
Professor Ross comes to Boston College from the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University, where she taught a range of courses on European cultural, intellectual, women’s and gender history while preparing her book, The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England, for publication. An admirer of early-modern men and women who aspired to master each of the seven liberal arts, Ross invites students to draw history from divergent sources, including literature, music and art. She teaches surveys of Western civilization and Renaissance/Reformation history, as well as seminars on classical mythology and the classical tradition, early-modern women writers, the emergence of feminism as a critical category, the history of the family and the role of sexuality in shaping human identity.
Representative Publications
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The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England (Harvard University Press, forthcoming).
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"Sofonisba Anguissola," "Lavinia Fontana," "Moderata Fonte," "Barbara Strozzi," and "Costanza Varano" in Diana Robin et al. eds., Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, Inc., 2007.
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"Her Father's Daughter: Cassandra Fedele, Woman Humanist of the Venetian Republic," in Anu Korhonen and Kate Lowe, eds. The Trouble With Ribs: Women, Men and Gender in Early Modern Europe. Helsinki: Collegium Studies Across Discplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2007.