Nathalie Hester

associate professor

Contact info:
Office: FR 430
Phone: (541) 346-4058
nhester@uoregon.edu



See photos of Machiavelli's comedy "Clizia" (1525) performed by students of ITAL 449/549

Degrees, years, and locations:
B.A., 1992, Dartmouth College; M.A. 1993; Ph.D., 2001, Chicago. (2001)

Research and teaching interests:
Renaissance and Baroque literature, travel literature, early modern French and Italian historiography, early modern Italian convent culture, feminist theory, seventeenth-century women’s writing.

Courses taught:
•Italian 150: Cultural Legacies of Italy
•Italian 318: Survey of Baroque and Enlightenment Literature
•Italian 449/549 Renaissance Women’s Writing
•Italian 459/559: Renaissance Theater
•French 301: Contemporary France
•French 317: Survey of Medieval and Renaissance Literature
•French 333: “Love and intrigue in French prose through the centuries”
•Romance Languages 407/507: Early Modern Travel Literature

Selected publications

• Literature and Identity in Italian Baroque Travel Writing. Book forthcoming June 2008 with Ashgate Press.

• “Travel and the Art of Telling the Truth: Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy’s Travels to Spain.” Huntington Library Quarterly Vol. 70 (1) 2007: pp. 87-102.

• “ Unreasonable Travels? The Place of Europe in Francesco Negri’s Viaggio settentrionale.” in Reason and Its Others: Italy, Spain, and the New World . Eds. David R. Castillo and Massimo Lollini, eds. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2006. pp. 101-122.

• “Taking after Tarabotti? A 17th-century Sienese Discorso.” in Arcangela Tarabotti, a Literary Nun in Baroque Venice . Ed. Elissa Weaver. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2006. pp.191-200.

• “Geographies of Belonging: Italian Travel Writing and Italian Identity in the Age of Early Tourism.” Annali d'Italianistica 21 (2003): 287-300.

•”Scholarly Borrowing: The Case of Remigio Nannini’s Orazioni militari and François de Belleforest’s Harangues militaires.” Modern Philology, Vol. 101, no. 2 (Nov. 2003): 235-258.