Convivium: Jane Tylus, Women as Witnesses: Grieving Mary in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

When and Where

Friday, March 07, 2025 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
3rd Floor
Lillian Massey Building
125 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C7

Speakers

Jane Tylus (Yale University)

Description

Hosted jointly by the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies and CMS, Jane Tylus (Yale University) presents Women as Witnesses: Grieving Mary in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Participants are welcome to attend either in person or virtually via Zoom.

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Abstract

forthcoming

Biography

"I specialize in late medieval and early modern European literature and culture, with secondary interests in 19th / 20th-century fiction. Even as much of my work has been based in Italian, I typically try to address in both my teaching and my research several national traditions through the lens of a single genre (epic, lyric, pastoral, the letter), theoretical model (representations of the other, translation), or historical problematic (religious crisis; female literacy; conquest of the New World). I’d like to think that my writing and classes create places for inquiry centered on works that are often productively ambiguous.  The recovery and interrogation of lost and marginalized voices –historical personages, dialects and “parole pellegrine”, minor characters in plays, poems, and epics – has been a special focus of much of my latest work. So has an interest in literature’s hospitality to the foreign in a period – the Renaissance; today – of increased nationalism and attentiveness to linguistic boundaries. Recent courses have focused on medieval women’s writings, the theory and history of translation, representations of rural life from antiquity through the present, and detective fiction.  My current book project explores the ritual of departure in early modernity, especially how writers and artists sent their works into the world.

I previously taught at NYU in Italian Studies and Comparative Literature, where I was founding faculty director of the Humanities Initiative.  Prior to NYU I taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and I’ve been General Editor for the journal I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance since 2013." - Jane Tylus.

Contact Information

Centre for Medieval Studies

Sponsors

Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, CMS