Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago, will introduce Notre Dame faculty and students to the Newberry’s extensive research collections, programs, and opportunities for scholars. As a member of the Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium, Notre Dame provides its faculty and students access to a wide range of resources through the Center, including seminars, workshops, fellowships, and other scholarly programs. Lia will discuss how Notre Dame researchers can take advantage of these opportunities and how the Newberry can support research at different stages, from student projects to advanced scholarly work.
At the Newberry Library, Lia oversees conferences, symposia, workshops, seminars, and digital humanities projects devoted to medieval and early modern studies. Her research examines cross-cultural exchange between Italy and the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries, collecting history, and early modern prints and drawings.
Her publications include Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence (Penn State University Press, 2016) and the co-edited volume The New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492–1750 (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Her edited volume Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s “Nova Reperta” (Northwestern University Press, 2020) complemented the Newberry Library’s fall 2020 exhibition of the same title and includes catalog entries as well as contributions from a related Newberry symposium. Most recently, she co-curated the Newberry exhibition Seeing Race Before Race and co-edited a volume of the same name with Noémie Ndiaye (2023).
Lia has taught at Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton University and has held fellowships at the Folger Library, the Warburg Institute, Harvard’s Villa I Tatti, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Herzog August Bibliothek, and the European University Institute in Florence. She is currently working on articles and books related to the conception of Mannerism, cartography, and Medici patronage, and is involved in two collaborative projects focused on the slave trader Francesco Carletti and the naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi.
Open to Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Faculty, Staff, Postdocs
Center for Italian Studies, Hesburgh Libraries, The Materiality of Medieval Texts Working Group in the Medieval Institute, the College of Arts & Letters, and the Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good
Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.