About Gerry Milligan

Gerry Milligan is Professor of Italian at the College of Staten Island, where he serves as Director of Honors. He is Professor in Italian and Global Early Modern Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. His research focuses on gender identity in Italian Renaissance literature. His books include Moral Combat: Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature (Toronto UP: 2018) and a co-edited volume with Jane Tylus, The Poetics of Masculinity in Early Modern Italy and Spain (CRRS: 2010). Link to podcast of my book at https://newbooksnetwork.com/gerry-milligan-moral-combat-women-gender-and-war-in-italian-renaissance-literature-u-toronto-press-2018

Gerry Milligan is Professor of Italian at the College of Staten Island, where he serves as Director of Honors. He is Professor in Italian and Global Early Modern Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Gerry:

Timothy McCall, "Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)

October 5, 2022

Brilliant Bodies

Timothy McCall
Hosted by Gerry Milligan

Italian court culture of the fifteenth century was a golden age, gleaming with dazzling princes, splendid surfaces, and luminous images that separated…

Eva Del Soldato, "Early Modern Aristotle: On the Making and Unmaking of Authority" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)

November 16, 2021

Early Modern Aristotle

Eva Del Soldato
Hosted by Gerry Milligan

Today we speak with Eva Del Soldato about her new book on how the authority of Aristotle was reinscribed and challenged during the early modern period…

Paola Ugolini, "Court and Its Critics: Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy" (U Toronto Press, 2020)

October 11, 2021

Court and Its Critics

Paola Ugolini
Hosted by Gerry Milligan

The fashionable and decorous men whom we recognize in portraits and letters from the Italian Renaissance penned some of the most scathing critiques of…

Andrea Moudarres, "The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso" (U Virginia Press, 2019)

December 30, 2020

The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic

Andrea Moudarres
Hosted by Gerry Milligan

In The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso (University of Delaware Press, 2019), Andrea Moudarres examines infl…