Proxy Wooings and Weddings, From Shakespeare to Rubens

WOMEN, GENDER, AND CULTURE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

SPEAKER: Ramie Targoff, Brandeis University

Ramie Targoff is the Jehuda Reinharz Professor of the Humanities, professor of English, and co-chair of Italian Studies at Brandeis University. She holds a B.A. from Yale University and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author, most recently, of Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance (2024) and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

She has written books on the invention of common prayer; on the works of the poet and preacher John Donne; and on Renaissance love poetry. In 2018, she published a biography of Vittoria Colonna. Her translation from Italian of Colonna's 1538 Rime, the first book of poetry ever published by a woman in Italy, was published in 2021.