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Juliana Schiesari
Graduate Faculty Advisor
Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Email: jkschiesari@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 530.752.4627
Office: 506 Sproul Hall
Office Hours
Introduction
Juliana Schiesari is the author of The Gendering of Melancholia:
Feminism, Psychoanalysis and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance
Literature, and co-editor of Refiguring Woman: Perspectives
on Gender and the Italian Renaissance.
Her areas of research include: feminist theory, psychoanalysis,
Renaissance and early modern literature, women's literature and
cultural studies. She is currently writing a book on the politics of
domestication of women and animals.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Renaissance Literature of Italy, France and England (some interest in early modern German literature)
- Psychoanalysis, with a special interest in mourning and trauma
- Gender studies
- Feminist Theory
- Post-humanist Theory with an emphasis on animals and human culture
Education:
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
- M.A., University of California, Berkeley
- A.B., German, Washington University in St. Louis
Selected Publications
- In progress: Beasts and Beauties: Pets, Bodies and Desire in the Renaissance
- "Bitches and Queens: Pets and perversions at the Court of France's Henri III" in Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans and Other Wonderful Creatures, ed. By Erica Fudge (University of Illinois Press, 2004)
- The Gendering of Melancholia: Feminism, Psychoanalysis and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance Literature (Cornell University Press, 1992)
- Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance, co-edited with Marilyn Migiel (Cornell University Press, 1991)
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Introduction
Juliana Schiesari is the author of The Gendering of Melancholia:
Feminism, Psychoanalysis and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance
Literature, and co-editor of Refiguring Woman: Perspectives
on Gender and the Italian Renaissance.
Her areas of research include: feminist theory, psychoanalysis,
Renaissance and early modern literature, women's literature and
cultural studies. She is currently writing a book on the politics of
domestication of women and animals.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Renaissance Literature of Italy, France and England (some interest in early modern German literature)
- Psychoanalysis, with a special interest in mourning and trauma
- Gender studies
- Feminist Theory
- Post-humanist Theory with an emphasis on animals and human culture
Education:
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
- M.A., University of California, Berkeley
- A.B., German, Washington University in St. Louis
Selected Publications
- In progress: Beasts and Beauties: Pets, Bodies and Desire in the Renaissance
- "Bitches and Queens: Pets and perversions at the Court of France's Henri III" in Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans and Other Wonderful Creatures, ed. By Erica Fudge (University of Illinois Press, 2004)
- The Gendering of Melancholia: Feminism, Psychoanalysis and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance Literature (Cornell University Press, 1992)
- Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance, co-edited with Marilyn Migiel (Cornell University Press, 1991)