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Gerry Milligan is an Associate Professor at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY), and currently serves as the Director of Honors Programs. He previously held leadership roles as Department Chair of World Languages and Literatures and Interim Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the same institution. He also holds Graduate Center appointments in the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program and the Department of Comparative Literature.
Education:
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
His research examines gendered identity in Italian Renaissance literature, with a focus on treatise literature, women-authored texts, and early modern theatre. Specific projects include analyses of cross-dressing in sixteenth-century comedy, the rhetorical use of effeminacy in Castiglione and Machiavelli, and the portrayal of heroines in Lucrezia Tornabuoni’s sacred poems.
Scientific Awards:
- Honorable Mention, MLA Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies, 2018
Milligan’s monograph Moral Combat: Women, Gender, and War in Italian Literature (2018) was supported by a year-long fellowship at Harvard’s University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence. He also co-edited The Poetics of Masculinity in Early Modern Italy and Spain (2010) with Jane Tylus.
