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Alani Hicks-Bartlett is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature, French and Francophone Studies, and Hispanic Studies at Brown University. She holds affiliations with the Department of Italian Studies, the Program in Early Cultures, the Program in Medieval Studies, the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. Her research integrates gender, race, disability studies, and critical theory, focusing on Medieval and Early Modern literature across English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish traditions. She explores themes like artistic failure, disability representation, and (proto)feminist writing.
Educated at Bryn Mawr College (BA, MA), Middlebury College (MA, DML), and UC Berkeley (PhD), her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, and others. Recent publications analyze race in Shakespeare, disability in Arthurian Romance, and exemplarity in Petrarchan intertexts. She teaches courses on Early Modern theater, medieval gender studies, and literary theory.
Her current book project examines disability narratives in Petrarch, Montaigne, and Cervantes, linking bodily diversity to selfhood and political health. She has held fellowships at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies and the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
