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Alani Hicks-Bartlett is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, French and Francophone Studies, and Hispanic Studies at Brown University; she is affiliated with the Department of Italian Studies, the Program in Early Cultures, the Program in Medieval Studies, and the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World. She earned a Joint PhD in Medieval Studies and Romance Languages (Spanish and Portuguese) from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Doctorate from Middlebury College in Modern Languages (Italian).

Her primary research and teaching interests include gender, race, disability, critical theory, and representations of artistic failure in Medieval and Early Modern聽English, French, Italian, Portuguese,聽Spanish,聽and (Medieval) Latin聽literature.听She has given special attention to: Arthurian Romance and questions of authorship in Medieval French authors like Chr茅tien, Marie de France, Froissart, and Alain Chartier; the development of lyric poetry, Petrarch, and early modern Petrarchan intertexts; epic poetry (the聽Cid聽and the聽Chanson de Roland聽as well as Virgil, Dante, Boiardo, Cam玫es, Ariosto, and Tasso, in particular); selfhood and health in Petrarch, Montaigne, Cervantes, and Cam玫es; and early modern tragedy (especially Calder贸n, V茅lez de Guevara, Racine, Trissino, and Shakespeare).听Her recent聽聽has been published in journals such as聽Comparative Literature, Hispanic Review, I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, L鈥橢sprit Cr茅ateur, MLN, Rivista di studi italiani,聽and聽Romance Notes.听

Project Description

As a Visiting Research Fellow at IAS 香港六合彩中特网, Alani will be completing articles on marriage and political failure in Portuguese聽肠谤贸苍颈肠补蝉聽and Cam玫es鈥檚聽Os Lus铆adas, and race and gender in a play by V茅lez de Guevara, while furthering research on her book,聽Writing the Disabled Self in Early Modern Literature: Petrarch, Montaigne, Cervantes.听Writing the Disabled Self聽offers a new perspective on聽these humanist and early modern authors聽by insisting聽upon the link between disability, illness, and personal and political health at the core of their self-representational techniques. Indeed, Petrarch, Montaigne, and Cervantes all describe their bodies in ways that we would presently align with disability, and they each center discussions of illness, health, carework, medicine, 鈥渞emedies,鈥� and bodily diversity in their respective oeuvres. And yet, their works are not commonly viewed as fitting within a premodern disability 鈥榗anon,鈥� and they are not often regarded as disabled writers鈥攖he rectification of which is one of the book鈥檚 primary methodological concerns.听