Latin Literature

I work on medieval and early modern Italian and French literature with a particular focus on violence and Nature.

• Regions: Britain; England; Europe; Italy
• Times: 15th to 17th centuries
• Themes: British Literature; Classical Reception; Early Modern Drama; History of the Book; Italian Literature; Latin Literature; Reformation; Renaissance; Shakespeare

• Regions: Britain; England; Europe; France;
• Times: 15th century; 16th century; 17th century
• Themes: British Literature; Classical Reception; French Literature; History of Empire; Latin Literature; Poetry and Poetics; Renaissance; Edmund Spenser

V...

• Region: Europe; Holy Roman Empire
• Time: 14th century; 15th century; 16th century
• Theme: German Literature; Cultural History; History of Religion; History of the Book; Intellectual History; Latin Literature; Philosophy

B.A. German Studies/English and American...

Leah Whittington joined the faculty at Harvard in fall 2012, following a year as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities.  Her research centers on early modern English Literature, the survival and reception of...

• Region(s): Europe
• Time Period(s): 13th century; 14th century; 15th century
• Theme(s): medieval English literature and literary culture; medieval Latin literature; letters and epistolarity; women’s writing; queer theory