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I am Professor of Italian at the University of Delaware, where I also teach courses in Women and Gender Studies and European Studies. I have been fascinated by the contributions of women to Renaissance literature and culture for as long as I can remember, and my research focuses on exploring the myriad aspects of early modern women’s experience.

My first book, Writing Gender in Women’s Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance, explored the performative aspects of published epistolary collections – a genre that was all the rage in the early modern period. My work on women’s letters sparked my interest in another popular early modern pursuit, mentioned in some of the letters I examined: alchemy. Embarking on a new direction in my researc ...more

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	Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy 3.94 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters Familiar and Formal (Volume 20) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series) by Arcangela Tarabotti, Meredith K. Ray (Editor), Lynn Lara Westwater (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Machiavelli: Political, Historical, and Literary Writings (Haney Foundation Series) by Mark Jurdjevic (Editor), Meredith K. Ray (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Convent Paradise (Volume 73) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series) by Arcangela Tarabotti, Meredith K. Ray (Contributor), Lynn Lara Westwater (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Redreaming the Renaissance: Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero by Douglas G. Biow (contributor), Alessandro Arcangeli (Contributor), Suzanne Magnanini (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gendering the Renaissance: Text and Context in Early Modern Italy by Meredith K. Ray (Contributor), Lynn Lara Westwater (Editor), Anna Wainwright (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arcangela: The Rebel Nun Who Defied the Vatican and Set the Renaissance World Ablaze by Meredith K. Ray, Lynn Lara Westwater 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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