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Jutta Sperling is a Professor of History at Hampshire College and holds a visiting scholar position at Amherst College. She received her M.A. from the University of Göttingen and her Ph.D. from Stanford University.
- Teaching Interests: Medieval/Early Modern Europe, Italian Renaissance, Ethiopian History, Gender Studies, Decolonial Archive Studies.
- Research Focus: Ethiopian sacred art, Nursing Virgin iconography, queer lactation narratives, and comparative Mediterranean legal studies.
- Publications: Author of Roman Charity: Queer Lactations in Early Modern Visual Culture (2016) and Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice (1999), co-editor of The Virgin’s Milk (forthcoming 2025) and other volumes.
Her recent work explores Ethiopian apocrypha like the Nägärä Maryam, analyzing Gəˁəz manuscripts and cross-cultural Marian cults. She examines how lactation imagery subverts patriarchal norms in European and Ethiopian contexts, while integrating postcolonial theory into historical analysis.
Key articles address topics ranging from Caravaggio’s charitable allegories to milk miracles in Venetian art, appearing in journals like The Art Bulletin and Renaissance Quarterly. Her research bridges art history, religious studies, and critical gender analysis, focusing on visual and textual artifacts from 1000-1800 CE.
