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Assistant Professor of Italian
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (2004)
Padelford C-259
Phone: 206-616-3940
E-mail: sgaylard@u.washington.edu
Susan
Gaylard completed her undergraduate work in her native South Africa, before
studying at Berkeley and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Prof. Gaylard
focuses on the early modern period, in particular the intersection between
literature and material culture. Her current book project explores the
linking of literary identity to objects (like books, coins, clothes, monuments,
emblems), and the gendering of the literary canon.
Other teaching and research interests include fashion theory, gender and portraiture, theater, early modern "how-to" books, literary historiography, and Italian representations of Africa.
Prof. Gaylard
has presented papers in Italy and the US, on topics ranging from Boccaccio
to 19th-century literary historiography. She has published on Boccaccio's
Decameron, Aretino's literary use of clothing, Castiglione's reworking
of Cicero, and the "monumental pose" in Ghirlandaio's Sala dei
Gigli frescoes and Pontano's Principe.
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