Overview

Alani Hicks-Bartlett is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature, French and Francophone Studies, and Hispanic Studies, with affiliations in the Department of Italian Studies, the Program in Early Cultures, the Program in Medieval Studies, the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. 

She has recently published on: race and citationality in Shakespeare; gender and violence in Medieval and Early Modern texts; power and empire in Medieval chansons de geste and Early Modern epic poetry; disability and gender in Arthurian Romance; the development of the love lyric; classical exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern literature; and race and gender in Early Modern drama. Along with various projects in Digital Humanities, her current research prioritizes four areas: violence, gender, and race in Medieval and Early Modern literature; representations of disability in Medieval and Early Modern prose compositions; Early Modern Tragedy; and Medieval and Early Modern women’s writing and the (proto)feminist complaint tradition. 

Her work has recently been supported by the Huntington Research Library, the Mellon Foundation, New York University’s Center for the Humanities, the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the Electronic Cultures Lab and Digital Humanities Institute at the University of Victoria.

Brown Affiliations

• Comparative Literature
• French Studies
• Hispanic Studies

Research Areas

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