Alani Hicks-Bartlett

Alani Hicks-Bartlett is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and French Studies at Brown University, and is affiliated with the Department of Hispanic Studies, the Program in Medieval Studies and the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World. Her research interests include gender and violence in Medieval chivalric romance and Early Modern adaptations; power, race, and empire in Medieval chansons de geste and Early Modern epic poetry (especially Boiardo, Ariosto, Tasso, and Camões); Petrarch and Petrarchism; and Early Modern Tragedy (especially Calderón, Luis Vélez de Guevara, Shakespeare, and Jodelle). She also works on Medieval and Early Modern women’s writing and the (proto)feminist complaint tradition, literary translation, and has recent publications on Petrarch, Vélez de Guevara, Michel de Montaigne, Cervantes, and D’Annunzio.