Ramie Targoff
Jehuda Reinharz Professor of the Humanities
Professor of English
Co-chair, Italian Studies
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
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Research Interests
Renaissance literature, lyric poetry, religion and literature; Shakespeare; Italian literature; and women's writing
Selected Publications
- "Poems of Widowhood: A Bilingual Edition of the 1538 'Rime'." Iter. (2021).
- "Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna." Farrah, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- "Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England." University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- "Marriage and Sacrifice: The Poetics of the Epithalamia." Spenser and Donne: Thinking Poets . n/a ed. vol. n/a Ed. Yulia Ryzhik. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2019. 171-182. Distinguished Publication Award for 2019 from the John Donne Society
- Thomas Browne's "Religio Medici and Urne-Burial." Co-editor, New York Review Books Classics, 2012.
- "John Donne, Body and Soul." Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- "Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England." Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
- Articles in PMLA, Representations, Renaissance Drama, Word, and Image, among others.
Awards
- Teaching Across the Disciplines: 2022-23 Team Teaching Grant for "If Music and Sweet Poetry Agree: Expressive Verse and Music in Renaissance England and Italy," in partnership with Sarah Mead (MUS, Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
- Honorable Mention for 2015 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association, 2015 for "Posthumous Love"
- Short-listed for 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Betta Kappa, for "Posthumous Love"
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2012-13
- American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence, Fall 2012
- American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2009-10
- Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Fellowship, 2003-04
- Best Book of the Year from the Conference on Christianity and Literature for Common Prayer, 2001
Selected Courses Taught
- Shakespeare (ENG 33a)
- Witchcraft and Magic in Early Modern Europe (ENG 73a)
- Women’s Writing in the Renaissance (ENG 243b)