Patricia Simons Associate Professor U of M Affiliation(s) Women's Studies PhD University of Melbourne

Scholarly interests include the art of Renaissance Italy with a special focus on the representation of gender and sexuality and interdisciplinary research on the construction of authority and identity.

Books:

Signs of Masculinity in Early Modern Culture (in progress).

Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. A Working Bibliography (1988).

Patronage, Art, and Society in Renaissance Italy (co-editor, 1987).

Articles:

"Bathing Women in early Modern Europe and Turkey," in Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, Convergence (2009).

"Agostino Carracci's Wit in Two Lascivious Prints," Studies in Iconography 30 (2009).

"Hercules in Italian Renaissance Art: Masculine Labour and Homoerotic Libido." Art History 31 (Dec 2008).

"Annibal Caro's After-Dinner Speech (1536) and the Question of Titian as Vesalius' Illustrator," (with Monique Kornell), Renaissance Quarterly 61 (Winter 2008).

"Anatomical secrets: Pudenda and the Pudica Gesture" in Das Geheimnis am Beginn der Moderne (2002).

"Homosociality and Erotics in Italian Renaissance Portraiture" in Portraiture: Facing the Subject (1997).

"Portraiture, Portrayal, and Idealization: Ambiguous Individualism in Representations of Renaissance Women" in Language and Images of Renaissance Italy (1995).

"Alert and Erect: Masculinity in Some Italian Renaissance Portraits of Fathers and Sons" in Gender Rhetorics. Postures of Dominance and Submission in History (1994).

"Lesbian (In)Visibility in Italian Renaissance Culture: Diana and Other Cases of Donna con Donna" in Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History (1994).

"(Check)-Mating the Grand Masters: The Gendered, Sexualized Politics of Chess in Renaissance Italy," Oxford Art Journal (1993).

"Women in Frames: The Gaze, the Eye, the Profile in Renaissance Portraiture," History Workshop Journal (Spring 1988).