Anna Wainwright

Anna Wainwright

Associate Professor
Office: Classics, Humanities, & Italian Studies, Murkland Hall, Durham, NH 03824
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Courses Taught

  • HUMA 511B: Medieval Humanities
  • ITAL 401: Elementary Italian I
  • ITAL 402: Elementary Italian II
  • ITAL 425: Intro to Italian Studies
  • ITAL 444B: Mamma Mia! Italian Motherhood
  • ITAL 444C: Honors/Feelings
  • ITAL 521: Mediev/Renaiss Italian Culture
  • ITAL 595: Practicum

Education

  • Ph.D., New York University
  • M.A., New York University
  • B.A., University of Chicago

Research Interests

  • Gender and race studies
  • History of emotions
  • Italian women writers
  • Pastoral
  • Religious Studies
  • Renaissance History
  • Renaissance literature
  • Renaissance transnationalism
  • The Counter-Reformation
  • Early Modern rhetoric/literature

Selected Publications

  • Wainwright, A. (2025). Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance. Early Modern Exchange Series, University of Delaware Press. Retrieved from https://udpress.udel.edu/book-series/the-early-modern-exchange/

  • Wainwright, A. (2022). Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide. A. Wainwright, & M. Chapman (Eds.), Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Retrieved from https://acmrspress.com/9780866988360/race-in-the-european-renaissance/

  • Wainwright, A. (2021). Outdoing Colonna: Widowhood Poetry in the Late Cinquecento. In V. Cox, & S. McHugh (Eds.), Vittoria Colonna: Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact (pp. 95-113). Amsterdam University Press.

  • Wainwright, A. (2021). “Tied Up in Chains of Adamant”: Recovering Race in Tasso’s Armida Before, and After, Acrasia. Spenser Studies, 35, 181-212. doi:10.1086/711936

  • McHugh, S., & Wainwright, A. (2020). Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation. University of Virginia Press.

  • Wainwright, A. (2020). "The Fair Warrior in the City of Florence: Maddalena Salvetti's Poems to Christine of Lorraine". In A. Wainwright, & S. McHugh (Eds.), Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation. University of Virginia Press.

  • Wainwright, A. (2018). Teaching Widowed Women, Community, and Devotion in Quattrocento Florence with Lucrezia Tornabuoni and Antonia Tanini Pulci. Religions, 9(3), 76. doi:10.3390/rel9030076

  • Wainwright, A. (2017). A Simple Virgin Speaks: Authorial Identity and Persuasion in Isabella Cervoni's Oration to Pope Clement VIII. The Italianist, 37(1), 1-19. doi:10.1080/02614340.2016.1258877

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