About Kate Driscoll

Kate Driscoll is Assistant Professor of Italian and Romance Studies at Duke University. She is a specialist of early modern Italian and European literary and cultural history, with interests in women’s and gender studies, performance history, and the histories of diplomacy and sociality. Her publications have appeared in The Italianist and the Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World, with forthcoming research on the intersections across affect, masculinity, early modern poetics, and Baroque opera. Email: kate.driscoll@duke.edu.

Kate Driscoll is Assistant Professor of Italian and Romance Studies at Duke University. She is a specialist of early modern Italian and European literary and cultural history, with interests in women’s and gender studies, performance history, and the histories of diplomacy and sociality. Email: kate.driscoll@duke.edu.

NBN Episodes hosted by Kate:

Roseen Giles, "Monteverdi and the Marvellous: Poetry, Sound, and Representation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

March 4, 2024

Monteverdi and the Marvellous

Roseen Giles
Hosted by Kate Driscoll

The marvellous, a key concept in literary debates at the turn of the seventeenth century, involved sensory and perspectival transformation, a rhetoric…

Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy" (Legenda, 2023)

January 25, 2024

Staging the Soul

Eugenio Refini
Hosted by Kate Driscoll

As per William Shakespeare, ‘all the world’s a stage’. But what if the human soul was a stage too? What if the stage of the world and the stage of the…

Jessica Goethals, "Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

January 20, 2024

Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court

Jessica Goethals
Hosted by Kate Driscoll

The Roman singer, courtesan, and writer Margherita Costa won prominence and fame across the courts of Italy and France during the mid-seventeenth cent…

Corrado Confalonieri, "Torquato Tasso and the Desire for Unity: 'Jerusalem Delivered' and a New Theory of the Epic" (Carocci editore, 2022)

April 27, 2023

Torquato Tasso and the Desire for Unity

Corrado Confalonieri
Hosted by Kate Driscoll

A form at the origins of Western literature, the epic has always been theorized in contrast to other literary genres, those that would either perfect …

Helen Solterer and Vincent Joos, "Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multilingual Literatures, Arts, and Cultures" (Manchester UP, 2022)

March 3, 2023

Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present

Helen Solterer and Vincent Joos
Hosted by Kate Driscoll

Helen Solterer and Vincent Joos edited volume Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multilingual Literatures, Arts, and Cultures (Manchester UP, …

Marilyn Migiel, "Veronica Franco in Dialogue" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

March 2, 2023

Veronica Franco in Dialogue

Marilyn Migiel
Hosted by Kate Driscoll

Since the late twentieth century, the Venetian courtesan Veronica Franco has been viewed as a triumphant proto-feminist icon: a woman who celebrated h…