Stephanie Azzarello

Postdoctoral Fellow
stephanie.azzarello@utoronto.ca

Fields of Study

  • Early Modern
  • European
  • Mediterranean
  • Post-colonialism/Decolonization

Areas of Interest

  •  Identity formation
  • Self exoticism/self fashioning
  • Early modern global Mediterranean
  • Multi-media artistic expression

Name of Postdoctoral Fellowship

Picturing Identity: Race-making and representations of the body in Early Modern Mediterranean art

Description

My projects examines how marginalized communities, such as non-white and/or non-Catholic Christians, constructed their cultural identities in the early modern Mediterranean. Focusing on places such as Palermo and Venice, my projects looks as various media, including oil paintings, ceramics, jewellery, and furniture, to investigate how these groups were represented by the dominant society in which they lived, and also how they represented themselves as a means of redefining and reclaiming their cultural and historical identity.

Biography

Selected Publications

  • “Who That Be? The perils of purchasing illuminated fragments through online catalogues at auction: A Case Study” Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, Special Issue: Fragmentology, Vol. 1 13:1 (Spring 2024): 151–165.
  • “Parchment, Gilding, and God: Gold Leaf and Divine Connection in a Camaldolese Choir Book” I Tatti Studies. 26 1 (2023): 143–170.
  • “Splendors of the Serenissima in a Digital Age: The Master of the Murano Gradual Reconsidered,” with Bryan C. Keene. Manuscript Studies, Vol. 6, no. 2 Fall (2021): 223–267.

Education

PhD, University of Cambridge
MA, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
BA, University of Toronto