Cohort Year:
2022
Research Interests:
Renaissance and early modern literature; classical literature; poetics; rhetoric; comparative literature; gender studies; empire studies
Alyssa received a BA in English and Classical Studies, with a History minor, from the University of Pennsylvania (2020) and an MSt in English Literature 1550-1700 from Oxford (2021), followed by a year teaching English and Latin. She is interested in the creation of early modern English authorial and national identities through imitatio and translatio studii et imperii. Her research primarily addresses the English reception of classical and Continental humanist texts but also includes studies of gender, book history, and empire.
