Sara Matthews-Grieco

Ph.D. in History, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France)

Phone number: +39-055-5031334
Fax: +39-055-5000531
Email address: smatth01@syr.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Biographical Profile

Prof. History & Coordinator, Women's and Gender Studies Focus (Syracuse Florence). Faculty Associate: Maxwell School and Women's Studies Program (Syracuse N.Y.). Teaches Renaissance and early modern European history with an emphasis on gender issues and a heavy reliance on early visual media as a primary source.

Publications focus on two areas of historical enquiry: (i) the history of women, the family and sexuality (ii) the construction of social identity in early visual communications. Author of Ange ou diablesse. La représentation de la femme au XVIe siècle (1991), has edited collective volumes: Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy (1997), Monaca, moglie, serva, cortigiana. Vita e immagine della donna tra rinascimento e controriforma (2000), Committenza e “patronage” femminile in Italia all’epoca moderna (2000), The Art Market in Italy,15th-17th centuries (2001), Représentation et identité en Italie et en Europe XVe – XIXe –siècle (2003), Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy (2010).
Other publications have appeared in scholarly journals (Renaissance Quarterly, Quaderni Storici, Mélanges de l'École Française de Rome, Word & Image) and in collective volumes: Historical Perspectives on Breastfeeding (1991), Barocco al femminile (1992), A History of Women in the West (vol.3, 1993), Storia del matrimonio (1996), Homo Religiosus (1997), Women and Faith (1999), Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society (2000), l'Histoire du corps (2005), Le désir et le goût, une autre histoire (2005),  At Home in Renaissance Italy(2006), Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy (2010). Fellowships and grants awarded by: Collège de France, European University Institute, Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti), John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, American Philosophical Society.

Research interests

  1. The sexual cultures of Europe (1400-1800)
  2. Visual literacy and the iconographic construction of identity.

 

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