Emeritus Professor Nerida Newbigin

BA PhD FAHA
nerida.newbigin@usyd.edu.au

Nerida Newbigin taught Italian Language and Literature at the University of Sydney from 1970 until her retirement in December 2008. She is now a full-time researcher. Her research interests are philological and historical: the history of theatre and performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, late medieval lay piety, and the editing and interpretation of theatrical texts and archival material. In June 2009, she set up a web page of transcriptions, texts, and translations prepared in conjunction with her teaching and research at www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~nnew4107/Texts/Home.html.

She was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1995, and appointed to a personal chair in Italian Studies in 2001.

Research Areas

• Philology and textual editing
• Theatre history
• Late medieval and renaissance lay piety
• Florentine social history
• Translation

Recent Projects

• ARC Discovery Grant, 2005-8: Festival, Spectacle and Plays in Renaissance Florence
• ARC Research Network for Early European Research, based at the University of Western Australia and made up of fifty established researchers throughout Australia. Panels: social fabric: social structures in early Europe, and their relationship to contemporary issues, especially poverty; families and gender; war, peace and conflict; religion and spirituality: the diversity of religious practice, thought and spirituality that shape European identity.

Publications

1974

• “Bradamante and Erostrato: Love’s Metamorphosis and the Page Disguise in Comedy.” Lingua bella 7 (1974): 23–26.
• “An Italian Comedy of the Sixteenth Century in the Grey Collection (3.c.15): The Aurelia re-examined.” Quarterly Bulletin of the South African Library 29 (1974): 44–47.

1978

• ALTRO POLO (A Volume of Italian Studies). Edited by Silvio Trambaiolo and Nerida Newbigin. Sydney: Frederick May Foundation for Italian Studies, 1978. 216 p. ISBN 0909798826
• “Politics and Comedy in the Early Years of the Accademia degli Intronati of Siena.” In Il teatro italiano del Rinascimento. Ed. Maristella de Panizza Lorch. Milan: Edizioni di Comunità, 1980, pp. 123–134. [Invited paper presented at International Colloquium, The Theatre and the Court, New York, Columbia University, 1978.]
• “Una commedia degli Intronati: I prigioni.” Rivista italiana di drammaturgia 7 (1978): 3–16.
• “A Forgotten Manuscript of the Commedia degli Ingannati in the Laurentian Library, Florence, and the ‘Missing’ Edition of 1537.” La bibliofilia 80 (1978): 215–228.
• “Two Autographs of Belisario Bulgarini’s Gli Scambi in the Marciana Library, Venice.” Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 40 (1978): 49–59.

1979

• “The Canzone nella morte d’una civetta: Some Notes on a Sixteenth-Century Text.” Studies in Philology 76 (1979): 156–171.

1980

• Review of La festa d’uno miracolo di Nostra Donna. Ed. Jennifer Lorch. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1979. In AUMLA 54 (1980): 272–3.

1981

• “Il testo e il contesto dell’Abramo e Isac di Feo Belcari.” Studi e problemi di critica testuale 23 (1981): 13–37.

1983

• NUOVO CORPUS di sacre rappresentazioni fiorentine del Quattrocento edite e inedite tratte da manoscritti coevi o ricontrollate su di essi. Bologna: Commissione per i Testi di Lingua, 1983. (Collezione di Opere Inedite o Rare, 139.) lxii + 350 p.
• FEO BELCARI. La rappresentazione quando la Nostra Donna Vergine Maria fu annunziata dall’Angelo Gabriello. Ed. Nerida Newbigin. University of Sydney: 1983. 28 pages. ISBN 0909798338
• Review article on Teatro del Quattrocento. Le corti padane. Ed. A. Tissoni Benvenuti and M. P. Mussini Sacchi. Turin: UTET, 1983. In Studi e problemi di critica testuale 28 (1984): 203–206.

1984

• “Between Prophecy and Redemption: The Disputa delle Virtù and Florentine Plays of the Annunciation.” Invited paper. In Atti del IV Colloquio della Société Internationale pour l’Étude du Théâtre Médiéval, Viterbo, 10–15 luglio 1983. Ed. M. Chiabò, F. Doglio and M. Maymone. Viterbo: Centro Studi sul Teatro Medioevale e Rinascimentale, 1984, pp. 261–273.
• ACCADEMICI INTRONATI DI SIENA. Gl’ingannati con il Sacrificio e la Canzone nella morte d’una civetta. Preface by Nerida Newbigin with facsimile reprint. Bologna: Forni, 1984. (Teatro Italiano Antico, 15.) XIX + 146 pp.

1985

• “Le Rappresentazioni di San Giuliano lo Spedaliere: La festa di San Giuliano.” Studi e problemi di critica testuale 31 (1985): 131–166.
• Review article on Pietro Fortini. Galatea, commedia inedita del Cinquecento. Ed. Adriana Mauriello. Naples: Liguori, 1983. In Studi e problemi di critica testuale 30 (1985): 176–180.

1988

• “Appunti sul testo della laude perugina del Sabato Santo.” In Miscellanea di studi romanzi offerti a Giuliano Gasca Queirazza. Ed. Anna Cornagliotti and others. Turin: Dell’Orso, 1988, vol. 2, 781–791.
• “Plays, Printing and Publishing, 1485–1500: the Florentine sacre rappresentazioni.” La bibliofilia 90 (1988): 269–296.
• Review article on Tre Commedie del Primo 500. Ed. Luigina Stefani. Florence: Corbo, 1986. In [[i||Studi e problemi di critica testuale 36 (1988): 222–224.
• Review of Giovanni Maria Cecchi. I contrasegni. Ed. Bruno Ferraro. Bologna: Commissione per i Testi di Lingua, 1986. In AUMLA 68 (1988): 318–319.
• Review of Mark Phillips. Marco Parenti: A Memoir. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987. In The Sixteenth Century Journal 19 (1988): 142.

1989

• Review of Allardyce Nicoll. The World of Harlequin: A Critical Study of the Commedia dell’Arte. 1963. Rpt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. In Parergon N.S. 7 (1989): 161–162.

1990

• ALESSANDRO PICCOLOMINI. Amor costante. Preface by Nerida Newbigin with facsimile reprint. Bologna: Forni, 1990. (Teatro Italiano Antico, 16.) XX + 160 p.
• “The Word Made Flesh: the Rappresentazioni of Mysteries and Miracles in Fifteenth-century Florence.” In Christianity and the Renaissance: Image and Religious imagination in the Quattrocento. Ed. Timothy Verdon and John Henderson. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1990, pp. 361–375.
• Review of Giovanni Maria Cecchi. L’andazzo. Ed. Bruno Ferraro. Rome: Salerno, 1989. In Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 52 (1990): 716–718.

1991

• “Cene and Cenacoli in the Ascension and Pentecost Companies of Fifteenth-Century Florence.” In Crossing the Boundaries: Christian Piety and the Arts in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Confraternities. Ed. Konrad Eisenbichler. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 1991, pp. 90–107.

1992

• DOMENICO MARIA FERRABOSCO (1531–1574). Opera omnia. Edited by Richard Charteris with texts edited and translated by Nerida Newbigin. American Institute of Musicology and Hänssler-Verlag (Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae), 1992. ISBN 3775107746.
• Review of Ilaria Ciseri. L’ingresso trionfale di Leone X in Firenze nel 1515. Florence: Olschki, 1990. In Spunti e ricerche 7–8 (1991–1992): 105–107.
• Review of two exhibitions and their catalogues: Le tems revient – ’l tempo si rinuova: Feste e spettacoli nella Firenze di Lorenzo il Magnifico. Exhibition presented by the Provincia di Firenze and the Istituto Ludovico Zorzi per le Arti dello Spettacolo in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, 8 April – 30 June 1992; curator Paola Ventrone; catalogue Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 1992; and La Chiesa e la Città a Firenze nel XV secolo. Exhibition presented by the Curia Arcivescovile di Firenze in the crypt of San Lorenzo, 6 June – 6 September 1992; curators Gianfranco Rolfi, Ludovica Sebregondi and Paolo Viti; catalogue Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 1992. In Confraternitas 3:2 (1992): 29–31.

1993

• “Le sacre rappresentazioni nella Firenze laurenziana.” Esperienze dello spettacolo religioso nell’Europa del Quattrocento. Ed. Myriam Chiabò and Federico Doglio. Rome: Centro Studi sul Teatro Medioevale e Rinascimentale, 1993, pp. 101–120.
• “La Rappresentazione di Sa’ Iacopo Maggiore.” Studi e problemi di critica testuale 46 (1993): 43–67.

1994

• “Piety and Politics in the feste of Lorenzo’s Florence.” Lorenzo il Magnifico e il Suo Mondo. Ed. Gian Carlo Garfagnini. Florence: Olschki, 1994, pp. 17–41.
• [Note on women’s confraternities in fifteenth-century Florence.] Confraternitas 5:1 (1994):41–42.
• Review of Maggie Black. A Medieval Cookbook. London: British Museum Press, 1992. In Parergon 12 (1994): 118–119.

1996

• FESTE D’OLTRARNO: Plays in Churches in Fifteenth-Century Florence. 2 volumes, xv + 794 pp. Florence: Olschki / Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, 1996. ISBN 88 222 4443
• ACCADEMIA DEGLI INTRONATI. The Deceived. Translated with an introduction, notes and bibliography. In Ariosto’s The Supposes, Machiavelli’s The Mandrake, Intronati’s The Deceived: Three Italian Renaissance Comedies. Ed. Christopher Cairns. Lewiston-Queenston-Lampeter: Mellen, 1996. Introduction, pp. 249–318; translation, pp. 319–439 (i.e., 190 pages). ISBN 0773488219
• RICHARD CHARTERIS. Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1555–1612): A Thematic Catalogue of his Music with a Guide to the Source Materials and Translations of his Vocal Texts by Nerida Newbigin and Frances Muecke. Stuyvesant, New York: Pendragon Press, 1996. ISBN 0945193661.
• “Research in Languages other than English.” Creative Investigations: Redefining Research in the Arts and Humanities. Ed. Margaret Mahony Stoljar. Canberra, Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1996, pp. 87–98
• “Politics in the Sacre rappresentazioni of Lorenzo’s Florence.” Lorenzo the Magnificent: Culture and Politics. Ed. Michael Mallett and Nicholas Mann. London: The Warburg Institute and University of London, 1996, pp. 116–130.
• “The Ascension Plays of Fifteenth-Century Florence: Some Problems of Terminology and Reconstruction.” Altro Polo: Italian Studies in Memory of Frederick May. Ed. Suzanne Kiernan. Sydney: Frederick May Foundation for Italian Studies, 1996, pp. 53–82.
• “Rubrics and Didascalia: Observations on the ‘Stage Directions’ in Fifteenth-Century Florentine sacre rappresentazioni.” Parergon 13 (1996): 93–107.
• “Art and Drama in Fifteenth-Century Florence.” The Early Drama, Art, and Music Review 19 (1996): 1–22.
• Review of Italian Renaissance Festivals and their European Influence. Ed. J. R Mulryne and Margaret Shewring. Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. In Parergon 13 (1996): 278–279.

1997

• “Agata, Apollonia, and other Martyred Virgins: Did Florentines really see these plays performed?” European Medieval Drama 1 (1997): 77–100. Also published in edited conference proceedings.
• Review of Antonia Pulci. Florentine Drama for Convent and Festival: Seven Sacred Plays. Trans. James Wyatt Cook. Ed. James Wyatt Cook and Barbara Collier Cook. Series intro. Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil Jr. (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, [1].) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996. In Comparative Drama 31 (1997): 475–477.

1998

• “Agata, Apollonia, and other Martyred Virgins: Did Florentines really see these plays performed?” European Medieval Drama/Dramma Medioevale Europeo 1997, pp. 175–197. Ed. Sydney Higgins and Fiorella Paino. Camerino: University degli Studi di Camerino, 1998.
• Review of Tomaso Garzoni. La piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondo. Ed. Paolo Cherchi and Beatrice Collina. 2 vols. (I Milenni.) Turin: Einaudi, 1996. And of Tomaso Garzoni. La piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondo. Ed. Giovanni Battista Bronzini, with Pina De Meo and Luciano Carcereri. 2 vols. (Biblioteca Di «Lares», n.s. LXIX–Monografie.) Florence: Olschki, 1996. Sixteenth Century Journal 29 (1998): 157–158.
• Review of Jackson I. Cope. Secret Sharers in Italian Comedy from Machiavelli to Goldoni. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996. Renaissance Quarterly 51 (1998): 1355–1356.

1999

• “Judas and the Jews in the Easter Plays of the Roman Confraternity of the Gonfalone.” European Medieval Drama/Dramma Medioevale Europeo 1998. Ed. Sydney Higgins and Fiorella Paino. Camerino: University degli Studi di Camerino, 1999, pp. 33–56.
• Review article, “Medieval Plays in Camerino, 1997 and 1998.” Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 38 (1999): 140–144.

2000

• CASTELLANO CASTELLANI. Rappresentazione di San Venanzio martire devotissimo. Edition with introduction and parallel English translation. xxi + 95 pp. Camerino: Università degli Studi di Camerino/Centro Linguistico di Ateneo, 2000. Tempi di Spettacolo, 7.
• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI. The Third Book of Madrigals for Five Voices. Ed. Richard Charteris, with translations by Nerida Newbigin. Albany, California: PRB Productions, 2000. Viol Consort Series no. 34. ISBN 1-56571-153-X. xviii + 110 pp.
• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI. Third Book of Madrigals for viol consort. Sex Chordae Consort of Viols. John Dornenburg, director. Centaur, CRC 2482. 2000. Sleevenote translations by Nerida Newbigin.
• “The Decorum of the Passion: The Gonfalone Plays in the Colosseum, 1490 to 1539.” In Confraternities and the Visual Arts in the Italian Renaissance: Ritual, Spectacle, Image, pp. 173–202. Ed. Diane Cole Ahl and Barbara Wisch. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• “Armies of God: Processions and Pageants in Florentine Religious Drama.” Paper presented to the Fourth Conference on European Medieval Drama, Camerino, 4–9 August 1999. European Medieval Drama / Dramma Medioevale Europeo 1999. Ed. Sydney Higgins and Fiorella Paino. Camerino: Università degli Studi di Camerino, 2000, pp. 201–221.
• Review of Material Culture and Medieval Drama. Ed. Clifford Davidson. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1999. (Early Drama, Art,and Music Monograph Series 25). Parergon 17 (2000): 196–197.

2001

• “Le feste.” Storia della civiltà toscana: Il Rinascimento, pp. 579–596. Ed. Michele Ciliberto. Florence: Le Monnier, 2001.
• Review of Confraternities and Catholic Reform in Italy, France , and Spain. Ed. Patrick J. Donnelly and Michael W. Maher. Kirksville, Mo.: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1999. (Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, 44) Journal of Religious History 25 (2001): 99–100.
• Review of Giordano Bruno. Candlebearer. Trans. and introd. Gino Moliterno. Ottawa: Dovehouse, 2000. Sixteenth Century Journal 32 (2001): 515–516.
• Review of The Politics of Ritual Kinship. Ed. Nicholas Terpstra. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Parergon 18 (2001): 225–228.

2002

• “I Giornali di Ser Giusto Giusti d’Anghiari (1437–1482).” Letteratura italiana antica 3 (2002): 40–249. (Introduction, edition, glossary and index)
• “Playing a Role: Confraternities, Drama and the Academy.” Arts: The Journal of the Sydney University Arts Association 24 (2002): 103–114.
• “Quale lingua? Perché studiare la lingua italiana all’università?” Italiano e scuola 7 (ottobre 2002): 29–30.
• Review of Sydney Higgins, ed. European Medieval Drama, 1–3 (1997–99). Turnhout: Brepols, 1997–1999. The Early Drama, Art, and Music Review 24 (2002): 177–181.
• Review of Vasari, Giorgio, 1511–1574. Vasari On Theatre. Trans. by Thomas A. Pallen. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. In Australasian Drama Studies 40 (2002): 136–139.

2003

• “Bit Part or Leading Role? Confraternal Drama Studies in the Academy.” Confraternitas 14 (2003): 5–12 (text of Renaissance Society of America Plenary paper).
• Review of Elissa B. Weaver. Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy: Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture. European Medieval Drama, 7 (2003): 162–163.
• Review of L’Oratorio del Gonfalone a Roma. Il ciclo cinquecentesco della Passione di Cristo. Ed. Maria Grazia Bernardini. In Confraternitas 14:1 (2003).

2004

• “La Compagnia del Gonfalone e le sue rappresentazioni negli Anni Santi del 1500 e del 1525,” in Il Cristianesimo: fonte perenne d’ispirazione per le arti. Ed. Franco Carlo Ricci. Naples: Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 2004 (Quaderni de “La Musica e la Danza” 15), pp. 161–182.
• “‘Del grasso di Lorenzo un’ampollecta’: Relics and Representations in the Quest for Forgiveness in Renaissance Rome.” Journal of Religious History 28 (2004): 50–63.
• “Giuliano Dati, Stazione, indulgenzie e reliquie: Quadragesimale de l’alma città di Roma.” Letteratura italiana antica 5 (2004): 227–257.
• [Translation] Nerbano, Mara. “Play and Record: Ser Tommaso di Silvestro and the Theatre of Medieval and Early Modern Orvieto.” European Medieval Theatre 8 (2004): 127–171.

2005

• “May, Frederick (1921–1976).” Australian Dictionary of Biography, Supplementary Volume, pp. 267–268. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005.

2006

• ACCADEMIA DEGLI INTRONATI. I prigioni di Plauto tradotti da li Intronati (1530). Edizione critica a cura di Nerida Newbigin. xlii + 156. Siena: Accademia degli Intronati, 2006. (Monografie di Storia e Letteratura Senese). ISBN: 8889073063
• “The Middle Ages.” In Cambridge History of Italian Theatre, pp. 9–27. Ed. Joseph Farrell and Paolo Puppa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 13 9780521802659 ISBN 10 0521802652
• “Docere delectando: Confraternal Drama Studies.” In Early Modern Confraternities in Europe and the Americas: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Christopher Black and Pamela Gravestock. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, pp. 226–242. ISBN 10 0754651746 ISBN-13: 978-0754651741
• “Mass Media: Visualising the Last Supper in Late Medieval Italian Plays.” Mediaevalia, 27:1 (2006): 185–205.
• L’amorosa Ero: Eighteen Italian Madrigals for four viols, voices or recorders. Ed. Richard Charteris. Albany, CA: PRB Productions, 2006 [with my translation of dedicatory letter and madrigals, pp. vii–viii.]
• Review of Aldo Castellani. Nuovi canti carnascialeschi di Firenze: Le “canzone” e mascherate di Alfonso de’ Pazzi. Florence: Olschki, 2006. In Renaissance Quarterly LX (2007): 1315–1317.

2007

• “Playing in the Piazza: Peter, Paul and Santa Maria del Carmine.” The Brancacci Chapel: Form, Function and Setting, pp. 139–155. Ed. Nicholas Eckstein. Florence: Olschki, 2007. ISBN 978 88 222 5650 8
• “Directing the Gaze: Expository Modes in Late Medieval Italian Plays.” In The Narrator, the Expositor, and the Prompter in European Medieval Theatre, pp. 69–91. Ed. Philip Butterworth. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007; Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, 17. ISBN 978-2-2503-52579-2.
• “Quattro postille sulle sacre rappresentazioni fiorentine.” Letteratura italiana antica 8 (2007).
• “Una commedia per la visita di Carlo V? I prigioni tradotti dagl’Intronati di Siena.” In Les Années trente du XVIe siècle italien. Ed. Danielle Boillet and Michel Plaisance. Paris: Centre de Recherche Culture et Société en Italie aux XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècles, 2007, pp. 99–107. ISBN 9782900478288.
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI. Venere, Adone e Amore. Serentas and Cantatas Performed by Rosalind Haltan and Chacona. ABC Classics, 2007. 476 6170 [My edition and translation of texts for 3 CDS; 96 tracks; sleeve-book, 32 pp.]

2008

• “L’occhio si dice ch’è la prima porta: Seeing with Words in the Florentine sacra rappresentazione.” Medievalia 28:1 (2007): 1-22 [published May 2008].
• “Machiavelli, Pirandello, and their donne di virtu.” Pirandello Studies, 28 (2008): 48–67.
• “Rewriting John the Baptist: building a history of the San Giovanni edifici.” Spunti e ricerche 22 (2007): 5–27 [published 2008].
• “Greasing the Wheels of Heaven: Recycling, Innovation and the Brunelleschi Question.” I Tatti Studies, 11 (2008): 201–241.

In Press

• “Imposing Presence: The Celebration of Corpus Domini in Fifteenth-century Florence.” Invited chapter, to appear Performance, Drama and Spectacle in the Medieval City: Essays in Honour of Alan Hindley. Ed. Catherine Emerson, Mario Longtin, and Adrian Tutor. Leuven: Peeters, 2009 (Synthema 6). ISBN: 9789042922105
• “Jousting Alone: Scandal and its Uses in Fifteenth-Century Florence.” Invited chapter, to appear in Sociability and its Discontents: Civil Society, Social Capital, and their Alternatives in European and Australian Society. Ed. Nicholas Eckstein and Nicholas Terpstra. Turnhout: Brepols. Submitted January 2007; changes requested by editors made July 2007; to appear Aug 2009. ISBN 102503524737 ISBN 139782503524733
• “Dieci rappresentazioni sacre del Quattrocento fiorentino.” To appear in Letteratura italiana antica 11 (2009). (400 page typescript)

Accepted

• “The Statutes of the Gonfalone Confraternity of Renaissance Rome” (Introduction and translation, 30 pp.), to appear in a volume of Confraternity Statutes, ed. Konrad Eisenbichler (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies). Submitted 2006; to appear 2009/2010.
• With Barbara Wisch. Acting on Faith: The Confraternity of the Gonfalone in Renaissance Rome. Saint Joseph’s University Press, Philadelphia; in their “Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts” series. Accepted April 2009.

In Progress

• “No Imperial Majesty: Frederick III in Florence and Rome, 1452.” Presented at conference The Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 7 November 2008; to appear in volume of essays as “Quasi insalutato ospite: Frederick III, Leonora of Portugal and their cassoni.”
• Libri di compagnia: a study of confraternal statutes and parodies of them.
• Edition and translation of plays of Lazarus, Passion, Resurrection (1496–1500), for electronic publication through the University of Sydney’s SETIS.
• Edition of the 1531 text of the Gonfalone Passion, 1475 lines, for electronic publication through the University of Sydney’s SETIS.
• Edition and essay on the Terze rime in lode di Cosimo (BNCF, MS Magl. VII.1121), 5000 lines of verse in praise Cosimo de’ Medici and the festivities presented in honour of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, the fifteen-year-old son of the Duke of Milan, who visited Florence in 1459.
• Translation of Pietro Paolo Muscarello, L’Algorismus, a manuscript copied in Nola, c. 1470, now in the Schoenberg Collection of the University of Pennsylvania Library.
• “The Erotics of Comedy in Sixteenth-century Italy.” Paper for presentation at the fifth ACIS conference, Auckland, New Zealand, February 2009.

Other professional contributions

• President, Friends of the University Library
• Council member, Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2003-2004
• Trustee and council member, Mandelbaum House
• Dean's nominee, Sydney University Arts Association