Lecture by Jane Tylus, New York University

“Pastoral as a way of seeing”

Jane Tylus is Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University.  Recent books include Siena, City of Secrets (2015), the co-edited Cultures of Early Modern Translation (with Karen Newman, 2015) and The Poetics of Masculinity in Early Modern Spain and Italy (with Gerry Mulligan, 2011), a translation and edition of the complete poetry of Gaspara Stampa (2010), and  Reclaiming Catherine of Siena: Literature, Literacy, and the Signs of Others (2009), for which she won the Howard Marraro Prize for Outstanding Work in Italian Studies from the Modern Language Association. She is General Editor for the journal I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance.  She is currently at work on two monographs, “Saying Good-bye in the Renaissance” and “Pilgrim Words: Linguistic Hospitality in Early Modern Europe,” as well as a translation of Dacia Maraini’s Chiara di Assisi: Elogio della disobbedienza.  She has held visiting positions at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and at Yale University, and in spring 2015 was the Robert Lehman Visiting Professor at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti in Florence.