My most recent monograph looks at Venetian salonnières (like Giustina Renier Michiel and Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi) and the men who attended their salons (like Ugo Foscolo, Ippolito Pindemonte and Melchiorre Cesarotti), in the late 18^th and early 19^th centuries. In particular, I have found that these salonnières drew on the roles they played in literary salons to offer themselves as cultural intermediaries in their publications, by simplifying the erudite writings of men of letters in their circle and making them accessible to a wider readership.

My current research concerns the impact of the expansion of commercial print in the nineteenth century on the posterity of Italian eighteenth-century "women worthies."

Publications principales

Livres

Gender, Mediation and Popular Education in Venice (1760-1830), New York: Routledge Press, 2023.

The Multigraph Collective, Interacting with Print: Intermediality in the Era of Print Saturation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. (Monographie rédigée en équipe : https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo26175995.html)

Engendering the Republic of Letters: Reconnecting Public and Private Spheres in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Montréal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003.

Articles et chapitres

« Venice’s Amazon? Giustina Renier Michiel’s Strategic Accommodation of Occupying Forces, » Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 53 (2024): 249–259.

 «Women worthies? Ascriptions of masculinity to exceptional women writers in early 19th century Italy » dans Clorinda Donato et Claire Martin, dirs., The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, 265-281.

« Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi as Cultural Mediator: Gender and Writing on Art in Early Nineteenth-Century Venice ».  Women’s History Review, 23, 2 (2014): 204-219.

« Women's History of the Risorgimento : A Historiographic Review ». Dans E. Brambilla et Anne Jacobson Schutte, dirs. La storia di genere in Italia in età moderna. Un confronto tra storiche nordamericane e italiane, Rome, Viella, 2014, 159-180.

« Women, Politics and Culture at the end of the Republic of Venice ». Dans Paula Findlen, Catherine Samà et Wendy Wassyng, dir., Italy’s Eighteenth Century: Gender and Power in the Age of the Grand Tour, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2009, 79-100.

« Searching for Virtue: Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi’s Ritratti ». Eighteenth-Century Studies, 40, 1 (automne 2006), 85-108.

« Gender and the Shifting Ground of Revolutionary Politics: The Case of Madame Roland ». Annales canadiennes d’histoire, 36 (août 2001), 259-282.