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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. 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:
December 15, 2025
The Wretch, Otherwise Known As Guerrino
This is an unabridged bilingual, fully annotated edition of Tullia d’Aragona’s epic poem The Wretch. This mid-century epic reflects the many historica…
March 4, 2024
Monteverdi and the Marvellous
The marvellous, a key concept in literary debates at the turn of the seventeenth century, involved sensory and perspectival transformation, a rhetoric…
January 25, 2024
Staging the Soul
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…
January 20, 2024
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court
The Roman singer, courtesan, and writer Margherita Costa won prominence and fame across the courts of Italy and France during the mid-seventeenth cent…
April 27, 2023
Torquato Tasso and the Desire for Unity
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 …
March 3, 2023
Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present
Helen Solterer and Vincent Joos edited volume Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multilingual Literatures, Arts, and Cultures (Manchester UP, …
March 2, 2023
Veronica Franco in Dialogue
Since the late twentieth century, the Venetian courtesan Veronica Franco has been viewed as a triumphant proto-feminist icon: a woman who celebrated h…