ITALIAN SCIENTISTS & SCHOLARS IN NORTH AMERICA FOUNDATION
Connecting, Empowering, Celebrating the Italian Intellectual Diaspora
RnB4Culture Award
2024
WINNER
Laura Ingallinella
University of Toronto
Dr. Laura Ingallinella is awarded the RnB4Culture Award for her highly engaging project that bridges between early modern and contemporary gender studies. Her methodological awareness is striking for such a junior scholar and her delivery was brilliant. Dr. Ingallinella clearly shows commitment to research and to further studies on gender forgery. Her competence during the presentation has been outstanding and very deserving of a recognition.
Laura Ingallinella is an Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto, with a cross-appointment in the Renaissance Studies Program at Victoria College. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, she taught at Wellesley College and earned her Ph.D. from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Her research and teaching explore the intersection of literature, identity, and difference in premodern Italy (1300-1600).
Her scholarship has appeared in prestigious journals such as I Tatti Studies in the Renaissance, Forum Italicum, Bibliotheca Dantesca, Medioevo Romanzo, Revue Mabillon, and The Sundial by ACMRS. She is currently completing her first monograph, The Fraudulent Muse: Gender and Literary Forgery in Early Modern Italy.
Prof. Ingallinella is also co-Principal Investigator of the NEH-funded "La Sfera Project," with her translation of Goro Dati’s 15th-century La sfera (The Globe) set for publication by Italica Press in 2025. Additionally, she is co-editing a forthcoming volume on race in Renaissance Italy with Prof. Robert J. Clines, titled A Crossroads of Difference: Race and the Making of Premodern Italy.
https://lauraingallinella.org/
https://www.italianstudies.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/laura-ingallinella