Faculty
BIOW, DOUGLAS
Professor of French and Italian
and Director of the Center for European Studies
Email: biow@mail.utexas.edu
Education:
Graduate work at Johns Hopkins in Italian literature
Languages:
Italian, English, Latin
Research Interests:
Periods: Middle Ages, Renaissance, early modern
Genres: epic, drama, treatises, romances
Current research: Eccentricities in Renaissance Italy, Applications of Thing Theory
Recent Publications:
Books:
The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy (Cornell UP, 2006)
Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy(Chicago, 2002)
Articles:
"Diplomacy: Castiglione and the Art of Being Inconspicuously Conspicuous" Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 38 (2008): 35-55.
"Food: Pietro Aretino and the Art of Conspicuous Consumption." In The Renaissance World, ed. John Jeffries Martin. Oxford: Routledge, 2007.
"Reflections on Professions and Humanism in Renaissance Italy and the Humanities Today." Rinascimento 43 (2003): 333-53.