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Professor Abigail Brundin

Abigail Brundin is a professor of Italin. She is a specialist in the literature and culture of Italy in the Renaissance and early modern periods. She is the first female Director of the British School at Rome. She has been a lecturer in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at Cambridge University since 2003 and a Fellow of St Catharine´s College since 2000, where she was Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages and History and Modern Languages.

Education

Brundin read for her BA-degree in Modern Languages (French and Italian) at the University of Cambridge from 1991-1995. She completed her MPhil in Comparative European Literature and Culture in 1997 and her PhD in Early Modern European Literature and Culture in 2000, both degrees also at the University of Cambridge.

Academic Career

Brundin has been a lecturer in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge since 2003, and a Fellow of St Catharine´s College since 2000. Her research has in particular focused on women writers and poetic, religious and devotional culture. She collaborated with the National Trust and examined Italian books in English great house libraries and the influence of the Grand Tour. This lead to her undertaking the curation of an exhibition at Belton House in Lincolnshire, along with Dr Dunstan Roberts.

In 2013, Brundin along with Deborah Howard (Architecture and History of Art) and Mary Laven (History) received a £2.4m Synergy Grant from the European Research Council for their research project Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home, 1400-1600. The project resulted in a large exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Madonnas and Miracles: the Holy Home in Renaissance Italy. Brundin, along with Mary Laven and Deborah Howard, won the Bainton History/Theology for The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy, published by Oxford University Press in 2018, the final book of the project.

Key publications


 * Vittoria Colonna, Selected Letters, ed. and trans. Abigail Brundin and Veronica Copello (Toronto: Iter and ACMRS Press, in press).
 * Abigail Brundin, Deborah Howard, Mary Laven, The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), xxv + 366pp.
 * Companion to Vittoria Colonna, ed. Abigail Brundin, Tatiana Crivelli and Maria Serena Sapegno (Leiden: Brill, 2016), xxi + 561pp.
 * Forms of Faith in Sixteenth-Century Italy, ed. Abigail Brundin and Matthew Treherne (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), xiv + 260pp.
 * Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation. Catholic Christendom 1200-1650 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), xvi + 218pp.
 * Vittoria Colonna, Sonnets for Michelangelo, ed. and trans. Abigail Brundin. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2005), xxxii + 197pp.