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Gerry
Milligan
Assistant Professor
Modern Languages
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Gerry Milligan
Assistant Professor
Office
: Building 2S
Room 104
Phone
: 718.982.3705
Fax
: 718.982.3712
Milligan@mail.csi.cuny.edu
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Degrees :
BA, University of Tennessee
MA, University of Wisconsin
PhD, University of Wisconsin
Biography / Academic Interests
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Gerry Milligan's research interests are Italian Renaissance literature, gender studies and women writers of late-medieval/Renaissance Europe. In addition to his classes on Italian language, he teaches courses on Medieval and Renaissance literature and culture. He encourages students to investigate literature as productions of cultures that are distant in time, yet have informed contemporary life in interesting and unexpected ways. Professor Milligan often focuses on social histories of the past in tandem with literary representations in order to question our assumptions of pre-modern life. Students have specifically enjoyed his teaching modules on women's makeup, Renaissance dress, and sexuality. Taking advantage of New York's cultural richness, he organizes trips to the Cloisters Museum, the Frick collection, and Italian cinema events. Additionally, he encourages students to travel beyond New York, especially to study abroad programs in Italy. While he was a student himself, Professor Milligan participated in several study abroad programs in both Italy and France and then later went to work in Italy as a coordinator for several universities' programs. Because of his sincere interest in study abroad, he has been an active participator in the development and continuation of CSI's "Isola Scholarship," which has sent several deserving students to Italy.
Scholarships / Publications
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Having finished his own graduate work in 2003, Professor Milligan is quickly establishing himself as one of the few scholars on masculinity in Italian Renaissance. He has published several journal articles on masculinity and Renaissance literature as well as a book article on masculinity and Machiavelli in the forthcoming Companion to Machiavelli. His point of departure for such critical inquiry is to question how discourses of masculinity are formed, perpetuated and/or critiqued in literature. His future research on gender and warfare will be carried out during his fellowship year at Harvard's Villa I Tatti in Fiesole, Italy.
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