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Nathalie Hester

Giustina Family Associate Professor
French, Italian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4058
Office: 222 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Mondays 1-3pm

Education

Books:

Letters from Spain: A Seventeenth-Century French Noblewoman at the Spanish Royal Court, by Marie-Gigault de Bellefonds, marquise de Villars. Edition and translation. Iter Press, 2021.

Literature and Identity in Italian Baroque Travel Writing. Ashgate Press, 2008.

Selected publications:

• “Amerigo Vespucci and African Amazons. Reinventing Italian Exploration in Baroque Epic Poetry.”Gendering the Renaissance: Text and Context. Eds. Meredith Ray and Lara Lyn Westwater. Newar3, DE: Delaware University Press, 2023. pp. 69-89.

•  "Transnationalism and the Epic Tradition in Baroque Italian Travel Literature." Transnational Italian Studies. Eds. Charles Burdett and Loredana Polezzi. Liverpool UP, 2020. pp. 107-224.        

• “Italian Travel Writing.” Cambridge History of Travel Writing. Eds. Nandini Das and Tim Youngs, Cambridge UP, 2019. pp. 206-220.

• “Columbus Conquers the Moors: Baroque Italian Epic from Granada to the New World” in The New World in Early Modern Italy:  Eds. Elizabeth Horodowich and Lia Markey, Cambridge UP, 2017.  pp. 270-287.

• “Bitter Laughter and Colonial novellistica in Galeotto Cei’s Relazione delle Indie.” Culture and Civilization 6 (2014): 243-257.