Defence from the Margin
‘Defence from the margin: “Once you have lost liberty, there remains nothing else to lose”. Defence in female-authored dedicatory epistles in the early modern period’ by Dr Jelena Bakić.
This was a fascinating lecture that was given live via our Zoom platform. The recording is available via our Library on YouTube.
Jelena Bakić is a scholar of Italian Renaissance literature and culture, specialising in paratextual and epistolary sources, privacy studies and the history of emotions and knowledge. Her interdisciplinary research combines philological analysis, archival work, Italian palaeography and digital humanities, with particular attention to the recovery and digital representation of early modern women’s, and other, marginalised voices.
She holds a joint PhD from Charles University in Prague and the Universityof Porto, completed within the Erasmus Mundus doctoral programme Text and Event in Early Modern Europe, and received her earlier training in Italian literature and gender studies at the Universities of Belgrade, Bologna and Granada. She is the creator of the PARITY online catalogue which is dedicated to visual representation of female contribution to culture in Renaissance Italy. Affiliated with CITCEM at the University of Porto and the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Jelena teaches on Renaissance literature, the history of emotions, digital humanities and early modern women authors. She is currently a LECTIO & DigiSoc visiting researcher at the KU Leuven.Her monograph Women’s Hidden Knowledge: Privacy in Renaissance Italian Paratexts is forthcoming with Brill (2026).
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