Faculty & Staff Directory
Shannon McHugh
Title: Associate Professor
Phone: 617.287.7561
Email: Shannon.McHugh@umb.edu
Department: Modern Languages Lit, Cultures
Areas of Expertise
Late medieval and early modern Italian and French literature and social history; gender studies (women’s writing, masculinity studies, history of feminism); religious writing and culture, in particular of the Counter-Reformation; translation studies; visual culture, especially comics, graphic novels, and other modes of participatory fan culture
Degrees
PhD New York University
Professional Publications & Contributions
- Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation. Co-edited with Anna Wainwright. University of Delaware Press. Edited by Shannon McHugh and Anna Wainwright. University of Delaware Press. Chapter contribution: “Devotion, Desire, and Masculinity in the Spiritual Verse of Angelo Grillo.” (2020).
- “Playing Papal Politics: Senatorial and Monastic Allies in Early Modern Bologna.” Co-authored with Danielle Callegari. Renaissance Studies (2018). Print edition forthcoming. Available online.
- “Authority, Religion, and Women Writers in the Italian Counter-Reformation: Teaching Diodata Malvasia’s Histories.” Religions 9.3 (2018).
- “From Helicon to Hollywood: A Dialogue on Veronica Franco and Dangerous Beauty.” Co-authored with Margaret F. Rosenthal. Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 11.2 (2017): 94-114.
- Diodata Malvasia. Writings on the Sisters of San Luca and Their Miraculous Madonna. Translated and edited by Danielle Callegari and Shannon McHugh. Toronto: Iter Academic Press; Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2015.
- “A Guided Tour of Heaven and Hell: The Otherworldly Journey in Chiara Matraini and Lucrezia Marinella.” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9.1 (2014): 25-46.
- “Rethinking Vittoria Colonna: Gender and Desire in the Rime Amorose.” The Italianist 33.3 (2013): 345-360.
- “‘Se fossimo tante meretrici’: The Rhetoric of Resistance in Diodata Malvasia’s Convent Narrative.” Co-authored with Danielle Callegari. Italian Studies 66.1 (2011): 21-39.
Additional Information
Additional Content:
Op-ed about inclusivity in Disney theme parks: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/guest-commentary/os-op-disney-history-evolving-not-wokeness-20210505-n7yvvfcpo5f33hss7g263sjtj4-story.html