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Virginia Cox

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Virginia Cox
Born (1962-11-30) 30 November 1962 (age 61)
OccupationBritish scholar of Italian literature, culture and history
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of Cambridge
Notable awardsFellow of the British Academy (2022)

Virginia Cox, FBA (born 30 November 1962) is a British scholar of Italian literature, culture and history. She is best known for her research on Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italian literature, the reception of classical rhetorical theory in Italy between the 13th and 16th centuries and Italian early modern women's writing.

Early life and education

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From 1981 to 1985, she studied modern and medieval languages (Italian and Spanish) at the University of Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. She remained at Cambridge to undertake a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Italian, which she completed in 1990.

Career

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Cox completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1990. She has taught at the University of Edinburgh (1989-91), University College London (1991-92), the University of Cambridge (1992-2002), and New York University (2003-2021).

Since 2021, she has held the posts of Honorary Professor of Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture in the Department of Italian at Cambridge, and Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.[1][2]

Honors and awards

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Cox has received book awards from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women in 2005, 2009, and 2012 and the American Association of Publishers in 2008, and article awards from the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (Rhetorica prize) in 2017 and the Renaissance Society of America (Nelson Prize) in 1996, 2004, and 2017.[3][4][5][6][7]

She appeared in the 75th anniversary edition of Renaissance Quarterly.[8]

In 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[9][10]

Selected works

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Monographs

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  • Cox, Virginia (1992). The Renaissance Dialogue: Literary Dialogue in its Social and Political Contexts, Castiglione to Galileo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-511-89571-5.
  • Cox, Virginia (2008). Women's Writing in Italy, 1400–1650. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8819-9.
  • Cox, Virginia (2011). The Prodigious Muse: Women's Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-0160-7.
  • Cox, Virginia (2013). Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-0887-3.
  • Cox, Virginia (2015). A Short History of the Italian Renaissance. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-0-85772-974-3.

Edited books

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Editions of texts

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References

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  1. ^ "Master & Fellows". Trinity College Cambridge. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Professor Virginia Cox | Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics". www.mmll.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  3. ^ "The William Nelson Prize". Renaissance Society of America.
  4. ^ "2008 Award Winners". PROSE Awards. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  5. ^ "2012 Award Winners – Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender". Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  6. ^ "2005 awards – Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender". Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  7. ^ "ISHR | A Journal of the History of Rhetoric". ishr-web.org. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  8. ^ "75th Anniversary Collection". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  9. ^ "Professor Virginia Cox has been elected as Fellow of the British Academy for the humanities and social sciences". Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  10. ^ "Professor Virginia Cox FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
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