Kristin Phillips-Court

Primary Language

Italian

Specialties and Areas of Research Interest

Italian Renaissance literature and culture; drama, painting and Renaissance inter-media; aesthetics; patronage; Machiavelli, Vasari, Tasso, Bruno.

Selected Publications

• Vasari’s Literary Art (book), forthcoming 2018
• The Perfect Genre. Drama and Painting in Renaissance Italy. Ashgate Press (2011) (book) MLA Scaglione Award
• Vasari, Leonardo, and ‘il vero ritratto del tradimento et inumanità,’”  Sixteenth Century Journal Vol. XLII No. 3 (Fall, 2011)
• “The Petrarchan Lover in Cinquecento Comedy,” MLN: Modern Language Notes Vol. 125, Number 1, January 2010 (Italian Issue)
• “Performing Anachronism: Revising the Aetiology of Italian Renaissance Tragedy,” Renaissance Drama Volume 37 “Italy and the Drama of Europe” (2010)
• “Framing the Miracle in Feo Belcari’s Rappresentazione quando la Nostra Donna Vergine Maria fu annunziata dall’Angelo Gabriello,” Annali d’Italianistica Volume 25 “Literature, Religion, and the Sacred” (2007)

Distinctions

• Vilas Mid-Career Faculty Award, 2017-19
• Vilas Associates Research Fellowship Award, “Machiavelli’s Tragic Geography” (2016-18)
• Faculty Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW, (2016-17)
• MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award, Italian Literary Studies for The Perfect Genre. Drama and Painting in Renaissance Italy (2009)
• Faculty Seminar, UW Institute for Research in the Humanities, “Machiavelli at 500”, 2013
• Honored Instructor Award, UW-Madison (2011-12)
• University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Competition “Vasari and the Poetics of Monumentality” (2011)
• University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Competition “Unceremonious Death in Machiavelli’s Il Principe (2010)
• University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Competition “Changing Definitions of Grace in Early Modern Italy” (2009)
• University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Competition “Performing Anachronism” (2008)
• UW Center for the Humanities Faculty Development Seminar, “Ovid and Ovidianism” Spring, (2007)
• Poorvu Prize for Interdisciplinary Teaching, Yale University (2001) (nominated 2005)
• Fulbright Fellowship, Milan, Italy, “Italian Visual Poetry Past and Present” (1998)