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Oral Presentation

Area of Study or Work

Women's and Gender Studies

Expected Graduation Date

2016

Location

Memorial Center, Illinois Wesleyan University

Start Date

4-16-2016 12:15 PM

End Date

4-16-2016 1:00 PM

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Abstract

Gina Paski is the Giustina Family Professor of Italian Language and Literature in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. She received her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies at Cornell University in 1989. professor Psaki has published criticism on the translations of medieval misogyny. In 2014 she published a collaborative history with Gloria Allaire entitled The Arthur of the Italians: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Italian Language and Culture. Her current project is The Traffic in Talk About Women: Misogyny and Philogyny in the Middle Ages, a study of writing in praise and blame of women from the French and Italian Middle Ages.

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Memorial Center, Illinois Wesleyan University

Gina Paski is the Giustina Family Professor of Italian Language and Literature in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. She received her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies at Cornell University in 1989. professor Psaki has published criticism on the translations of medieval misogyny. In 2014 she published a collaborative history with Gloria Allaire entitled The Arthur of the Italians: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Italian Language and Culture. Her current project is The Traffic in Talk About Women: Misogyny and Philogyny in the Middle Ages, a study of writing in praise and blame of women from the French and Italian Middle Ages.

 

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