Kristin Phillips-Court
Position title: Associate Professor of Italian and Early Modern Italian Art; Director, UW-Madison Center for Early Modern Studies (CEMS); Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, Italian
Email: kristin.phillips-court@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262.4069
Address:
206A Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. in person; Wednesday through Friday 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. by appointment (Zoom).
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests
14th-17th-c. Italian literature and visual art • Machiavelli • 15th-17th-c. theater • Renaissance poetics and artistic theory • politics & patronage • theological debates • art historiography • Vasari • changing representations of Mary in literature and painting • humanistic geographies and the urban landscape • Paul III, Cosimo I • intermedial arts in the service of the state
Selected Publications
The Perfect Genre. Drama and Painting in Renaissance Italy. Ashgate (Routledge, 2011) MLA Scaglione Award for a Manuscript in Italian Studies.
Reviewed in: Renaissance Quarterly, Annali d’Italianistica, Italian Studies, Forum Italicum, Italica, CAA, Source, Times Literary Supplement, MLR, Drammaturgia,16th Century Journal
In progress:
Vasari’s Literary Art
Machiavelli, Art, and Nature
Raphael’s Doubles
“Vasari’s Other Poet,” I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance Vol. 27 (Fall, 2024)
“The Tale of Teodoro and Violante,” Lectura Boccaccii Day V (Toronto: UTP, 2025) forthcoming.
“A Movable Feast: Ariosto’s theater from inception to reception,” (in progress for A Companion to Ariosto, eds. A. Ascoli, S. Jossa, & J. Everson (Leiden: Brill, 2025
“Spectacular Eros,” Introduction to Pietro Aretino’s Erotic Sonnets
“Machiavelli’s Calumny” (in progress)
“Vasari, Leonardo, and ‘il vero ritratto del tradimento et inumanità,’” Sixteenth Century Journal Vol. XLII No. 3 (Fall, 2011)
“The Petrarchan Lover in Cinquecento Comedy,” MLN: Modern Language Notes Vol. 125, Number 1, January 2010 (Italian Issue)
“Performing Anachronism: Revising the Aetiology of Italian Renaissance Tragedy,” Renaissance Drama Volume 37 “Italy and the Drama of Europe” (2010)
“Framing the Miracle in Feo Belcari’s Rappresentazione quando la Nostra Donna Vergine Maria fu annunziata dall’Angelo Gabriello, ”Annali d’Italianistica Volume 25“ Literature, Religion, and the Sacred” (2007)
Courses
Earthly & Heavenly Bodies: The Art of Michelangelo (AH 103)
Have Brush, Will Travel: The Italian Renaissance between Florence & Rome (AH 106)
Love and Sex in Italian Comedy (LT 213 *Comm B)
Italian Humanism – Il Quattrocento (IT 632)
Word and Image: Lirici del Cinquecento (IT 952)
Arms-love-art: Ariosto and the Renaissance Epic (IT 731)
Painted Words:Tasso and the Late Renaissance (IT 732)
Il teatro italiano (IT 631)
Rome: The City and the Myth (Ital/Classics 350)
Italian Renaissance Art (AH 320)