• 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

Victoria Pipas is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Harvard, with a specialization in 16th century Renaissance literature, particularly Elizabethan lyric and epic poetry. Her primary area of study is the poetry of Edmund Spenser, with secondary interests in classical reception, medieval literature, and continental humanist poetics, particularly the French, Italian, and neo-Latin traditions. A graduate of Middlebury College, she holds an MSt in Early Modern English Literature from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Clarendon Scholar, as well as an MA of Comparative Literature from Dartmouth. Her current research investigates Spenser's poetics of matter and its relationship to the translatio studii et imperii paradigms of the French humanist poets, especially the work of Joachim du Bellay. She has also worked as a research assistant and project manager for Professor James Hankins' “Patrizi Project,” for which she edited and co-authored an introduction to a forthcoming edition of the early modern English epitome translation of Francesco Patrizi of Siena’s De institutione reipublicae (1465/71), a humanist “virtue politics” text.