MEREDITH RAY, “Early Modern Women and Communities of Science”

MEREDITH RAY, Associate Professor of Italian and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware, and Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow at the Alice Paul Center is the author of Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance (Toronto, 2009), which was awarded an American Association of Italian Studies Best Book Prize; and the co-editor of Arcangela Tarabotti's Lettere familiari e di complimento (Turin, 2005) and Arcangela Tarabotti: Letters Familiar and Formal (Toronto, 2012). Currently, she is completing a book manuscript entitled Chemical Weddings: Women, Scientific Culture and Literary Discourse in Early Modern Italy. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Penn Humanities Forum. She is a 2013-2014 Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Alice Paul Center.

Thursday, February 16, 2017

6:00 – 7:30 pm

Room 9207

This event is cosponsored with The Center for the Study of Women & Society.