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Dr. Jessica Maratsos is an Associate Professor of Italian in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge. With a PhD from Columbia University (2014), she is affiliated with Pembroke College and specializes in Italian Renaissance art. Her research explores intersections between visual and material culture, religious practice, gender, and the body.
- Current Position: Associate Professor at University of Cambridge
- Previous Appointments: American University of Paris, Columbia University, Harvard University
- Research Focus: Renaissance visual culture, relic mobility, gender studies, text-image relationships
Her scholarly work examines how religious artifacts like reliquaries facilitated transnational cultural exchange in early modern Europe. She has published extensively on Pontormo, Michelangelo, and Vittoria Colonna, analyzing their contributions to Renaissance devotion and artistic theory.
Recent research includes studies on:
- Global movement of sacred objects
- Epistemologies of the body in Renaissance art
- Poetry-image dynamics in Christian devotion
- Medici court politics in 16th-century Tuscany
