Aileen A Feng

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Books

• Alfie, F. R., Feng, A. A., Feng, A. A., & Alfie, F. R. (2017). The Poetry of Burchiello (ca. 1404-1449): Deep-fried Nouns, Hunchbacked Pumpkins, and Other Nonsense. Introduction, Notes, and Translation by Fabian Alfie and Aileen A. Feng.. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS Press.
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  First English translation and edition of Burchiello's poetry.
• Feng, A. A. (2017). Writing Beloveds: Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender.. University of Toronto Press.
• Feng, A. A. (2015). Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry. Ed. Unn Falkeid and Aileen A. Feng.. Farnham: Ashgate.
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  The first modern volume of criticism devoted to the female Renaissance poet Gaspara Stampa. Co-edited with Unn Falkeid (Stockholm University) for the Ashgate series "Women and Gender in the Early Modern World ."

Chapters

• Feng, A. A. (2022). Gendered Mourning in the Epistolary Collections of Petrarch and Isotta Nogarola. In Petrarchan Passions: Affects and Community-Formation in the Renaissance World, eds Bernhard Huss/Timothy Kircher/Gur Zak(pp 114-138).
• Feng, A. A. (2021). "The Tale of Cesca and the Mirror (VI.8)". In The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective. Ed. David Lummus.. University of Toronto Press.
• Feng, A. A. (2015). Introduction. In Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry. Ed. Unn Falkeid and Aileen A. Feng.(pp 1-12). Farnham: Ashgate.
• Feng, A. A. (2015). “Desiring Subjects: Mimetic Desire and Female Invidia in Gaspara Stampa’s Rime.”. In Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry. Ed. Unn Falkeid and Aileen A. Feng.(pp 75-91). Farnham: Ashgate.

Journals/Publications

• Feng, A. A. (2020). Laura Cereta. Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation. doi:DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195399301-0432
• Feng, A. A. (2013).

  ‘Volto di Medusa’: Monumentalizing the self in Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta

  . Forum Italicum, 47(3), 497-521. doi:10.1177/0014585813497334
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  Scholarship on Petrarch has generally intepreted the figure of Laura-as-Medusa as a projection of the poet's internal conflict between sacred and profane love. Such a reading takes Medusa as a threat to Petrarch's agency. Yet Petrarch's Laura-Medusa is suggestively figured as only her disembodied head, a weapon ultimately manipulated by Perseus. This reversal of agency has an impact on Petrarch's complicated theory of poetic inspiration, and reaches beyond the relationship between poet and beloved to encompass another fraught paradigm of power: the relationship between poet and patron. By recalling the disembodied head of Medusa in the figure of Laura, and recovering the political symbolism of the appropriation of her petrifying gaze, Petrarch creates a model of poetic agency that he uses to stage his relationship to patronage in the Latin Africa and a poem addressed to his Colonna patrons.

Presentations

• Feng, A. A. (2021, April). On Female Monsters and Eloquence: Laura Cereta’s Infernal Dream Narrative. Renaissance Society of America annual conference (virtual). online because of COVID-19: Renaissance Society of America.
• Feng, A. A. (2021, March). Gendered Mourning in the Epistolary Collections of Petrarch and Isotta Nogarola. International (virtual) workshop on "Affects and Community Formation in the Petrarchan World," Freie Universität Berlin. Berlin, Germany (virtual): Freie Universität Berlin.
• Feng, A. A. (2018, February). “Cesca e lo specchio: Gendered Mirrorings, Female Vanity, and Exemplarity in Decameron VI.8”. Invited lecture / job talk. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
• Feng, A. A. (2018, March). “Female Masculinity: Sophonisba in Petrarch’s Africa and Boccaccio’s De mulieribus claris”. Renaissance Society of America annual conference. New Orleans: Renaissance Society of America.
• Feng, A. A. (2017, November). “Lingua est suffusa veneno: Female-Authored Misogyny and Intellectuality in Quattrocento Italy,. invited lecture. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Dept of Romance Studies.
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  invited lecture on new monograph project
• Feng, A. A. (2016, October). “Bilious Tongues: Female-authored Misogyny in the Quattrocento”. Invited lecture, Villa La Pietra, NYU Florence (Italy). Villa La Pietra, NYU Florence, Italy: New York University.
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  Invited lecture on new book project
• Feng, A. A. (2016, September). Feminism's First Paradox: Female Misogyny and Homosociality in Early Modern Italy and France.. Villa I Tatti Fellows Presentations. Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies: Harvard University.
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  30-minute formal presentation of book/fellowship-year project, followed by 30 minute Q&A.
• Feng, A. A. (2015, 26-28 March). “Female-authored Misogyny and Exemplarity in Laura Cereta’s Letterbook”. Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference. Berlin, Germany: Renaissance Society of America (RSA).
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  Invited conference paper based on a chapter in my second monograph project, Feminism's First Paradox: Female Misogyny and Homosociality in Early Modern Italy and France.
• Feng, A. A. (2014, March). “Female Mythology and Nation-building in the Ciceronian Controversies”. Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference. New York, New York: Renaissance Society of America; Panel sponsored by History of the Classical Tradition Discipline..
• Feng, A. A. (2014, November). “Building Virtual Communities: Female Invidia, Mimetic Desire, and Fame in Gaspara Stampa’s Rime”. Movement and Arrest in Early Modern Culture Symposium, University of Stockholm. Stockholm, Sweden: Consortium of Scandinavian universities.

Reviews

• Feng, A. A. (2019. Review of William J. Kennedy, Petrarchism at Work: Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare..
• Feng, A. A. (2016. Review of Meredith K. Ray, Daughters of Alchemy. Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard UP, 2015. (forthcoming, Italica)(pp 4 ms. pages).
• Feng, A. A. (2017. Ray, Meredith K. Daughters of Alchemy. Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard UP, 2015. (Italica 94.1 [2017]).
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  invited book review
• Feng, A. A. (2016. Review of Anna Carocci, “Non si odono altri canti”: Leonardo Giustinian nella Venezia del Quattrocento. Con l’edizione delle canzonette secondo il ms. Marciano It. IX 486. Rome: Viella, 2014.(pp 777-778).
• Feng, A. A. (2016. Review of Lisa Kaborycha. A Short History of the Renaissance. Upper Saddle, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2011. 320 pages.(pp 171-178).
• Feng, A. A. (2016. Review of Raffaele Morabito. L’evo e il tempo del “Canzoniere.” Biblioteca dell’“Archivum Romanicum,” Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia 441. Florence: Olschki, 2015(pp 1563-1565).
• Feng, A. A. (2015. Review of William Tronzo, Petrarch's Two Gardens: Landscape and the Image of Movement. New York: Italica Press, 2014.(pp 304-305).
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  Book review for journal, Speculum.
• Feng, A. A. (2015. Review. Tronzo, William. Petrarch's Two Gardens: Landscape and the Image of Movement. New York: Italica Press, 2014.(pp 304-305).

Others

• Alfie, F. R., Feng, A. A., & Christiana, D. R. (2015, November). A Poetry of Art: Burchiello Redressed.
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  A limited-edition box set of etchings illustrating the poetry of Burchiello. Print run of 25 funded by a grant from the UA Confluencenter. Etchings by Prof. David Christiana (College of Fine Arts); translations of Burchiello by Fabian Alfie and Aileen Feng.