Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts & Science
Project: The Cure Gone Awry
Alani Hicks-Bartlett is Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature. She received a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures and Medieval Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women’s and Gender Studies from UC Berkeley, and earned MA degrees in French, Italian, and Spanish from Bryn Mawr College and Middlebury College. Her research interests include gender and violence in Medieval and Early Modern drama, the relationship between politics and notions of empire in epic literature, and vernacular poetics and the development of the love lyric from the 11th century to the present. Her work has been supported by the American Association for University Women, the Ford Foundation, the Digital Humanities Institute at the University of Victoria, and others. She is currently working on the following projects: a book about literary discussions of gender, dis/ability, and political instability in Chrétien de Troyes, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, and Calderón, a study of Early Modern English, French, Italian, and Spanish wife-murder plays, and a history of penitence and the Petrarchan complaint in Medieval and Early Modern poetry.