Inventing Futures Fellowship 2027
Jessica Goethals
Jessica Goethals is Associate Professor of Italian and Director of the Italian Program at the University of Alabama in the United States. She is the author of Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court (University of Toronto Press, 2023) and, with Sara Díaz, editor and translator of Costa’s The Buffoons, A Ridiculous Comedy. A Bilingual Edition for The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series (ITER, 2018). Her next monography, Writing the Sack of Rome (1527): Ruin, Representation, and Literary Renewal, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2027. Her upcoming research will center on written and visual representations of gendered violence perpetrated during the battles and invasions of the Italian Wars, as well as a project on acts of femicide in early modern Italy as recorded in both archival and literary sources.
At Durham, Jessica will be part of Professor Ita Mac Carthy’s project ‘Daphne and Her Sisters: Framing Gendered Violence’ within the ‘Inventing Futures’ programme at the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS).