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Susan Gaylard
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, and Castiglione's reworking of Cicero.

 
 

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