Brendan Dooley is professor of Renaissance studies at University College Cork. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He works on the histories of culture and knowledge with reference to Europe and especially to Italy and the Mediterranean world. Dr. Dooley has published widely on topics relating to intellectual life, institutions, and patronage structures from 1500-1800. Partly by background, partly by inclination, he is particularly drawn to topics regarding transition, transmission, and translation, in the broadest senses. Hence the direction much of his recent research has taken, in the areas of mediality and communication, within and among physical and mental spaces, between past and present, in love and war. Examples include A Mattress Maker’s Daughter, the Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni de’ Medici and Livia Vernazza (Harvard, 2014) and, as editor, The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity in Early Modern Culture (Ashgate, 2010). At Bard Graduate Center, he will continue investigating humanities methodologies applied to material culture in a project entitled “Angelica’s Book: The Power of Reading in a Late Renaissance.”
Brendan Dooley
Research Fellow