PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Echoes of Women: Indigenous and Settler Women in Portuguese America, 1500-1700 in preparation.

Renaissance Masculinities, Diplomacy, and Cultural Transfer: Federico and Ferrante Gonzaga in Italy and Beyond, Amsterdam University Press. Series: Renaissance History, Art and Culture, 2024.

Elite Women as Diplomatic Agents in Italy and Hungary: The Aragonese Dynastic Network, 1470-1510, ARC-Humanities Press, Series: Gender and Power in the Premodern World, 2022.

 JOURNAL ARTICLES

With Luisa Stella De Oliveira Coutinho Silva and Vanessa Massuchetto, ‘Introduction: Women’s and Gender History in the Iberian Worlds: Global Knowledge Production’, Women’s History Review, DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2025.2535049

‘Don’t call it magic: Indigenous knowledges in sixteenth-century Portuguese Inquisition trials of women in Brazil and West Africa’ Women’s History Review, DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2025.2535052

With Linda Zampol D’Ortia, Special Issue “Gender and Emotion in Early Japanese Christianity” – Introduction, Journal of Religious Hisory, DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.13172

‘“With Delight and Desire”: Gender and Emotion in the Conversions of Japanese Women in Sixteenth‐Century Southern Japan’, Journal of Religious History, 17 February 2025, 1467-9809.13137, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13137.

“Governadoras: Women administrators, gender, and colonization in sixteenth-century Portuguese America” Renaissance Quarterly, Spring 2024. https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2024.20

“Luís Fróis, Gendered Knowledge, and the Jesuit Encounter with Sixteenth-Century Japan,” Historical Journal, 2023: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X23000109 .

“The Uprooting of Indigenous Women’s Horticultural Practices in Brazil, 1500-1650” Past & Present, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac047

Prizes:

• Philippa Maddern Prize for Best Article by an Early Career Researcher
• Mary Bennett Prize for Best Article in Women’s History

“The Lettres portugaises: Scripting and Selling Female Desire” Gender & History, 2022: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12670 .

“Cultural immersion: diplomacy, learning and mobility in the childhood of Federico II Gonzaga during the War of the League of Cambrai (1508-1516)” Parergon Vol 38, No 2 (2021), 13-42.

“‘Politics, Pedagogy, and Praise: Three Literary Texts Dedicated to Eleonora d’Aragona, Duchess of Ferrara” I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, Vol 19, No 2 (November 2016) 285–307.
Prizes: 2018 Royal Studies Journal/Canterbury Christ Church University prize for best published essay by a Postgraduate or Early Career Researcher

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Catherine of Austria (1507-1578), the Arara Parrot and Natural Resource Management” eds. Susan Broomhall and Clare Davidson. Queens, Queenship, and Natural Resource Management in Premodern Europe, 1400-1800. Routledge, 2025. 196-218

“Converting the Cityscape: Performing civic pride in accounts of the 1585 Tenshō boys’ Japanese embassy” eds. Katie Barclay and Jade Riddle.  Urban Emotions and the Making of the City Interdisciplinary Perspectives. (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021), 19-35.

“New Christian family networks in the First Visitation of the Inquisition to Brazil” ed. Heather Dalton Keeping family in an age of long-distance trade, discovery and settlement 1550 – 1850. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020), 193-212.

“Wife, Widow, Exiled Queen Beatrice d’Aragona (1457–1508) and Kinship in Early Modern Europe” in Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe eds Lisa Hopkin and Aidan Norrie (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019), 139-158.

With Carolyn James and Jessica O’Leary, “Letter-writing and emotions” in The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe, 1100-1700 eds Susan Broomhall and Andrew Lynch (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019), 256-268.

WORKING PAPERS

The Trial of Íria Álvares Conviviality and Inequality in the Portuguese Inquisition Records. Working Paper No. 58, 2023. Mecila: Working Paper Series

CATALOGUE ENTRIES

“Two educational manuscripts for Massimiliano Sforza from the Biblioteca Trivulziana in Milan: the Grammatica del Donato and the Liber Iesus” Renaissance Children (26 March – 4 July 2021) edited by Samuel Mareel. (Mechelen:

PUBLIC HISTORY AND MAGAZINES

Contributor, The Conversation, article: “In The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O’Farrell distorts the historical record to suit modern sensibilities,” Published online: October 17, 2022.

Contributor, Medieval Warfare Magazine, article: “Princesses of Diplomacy in the Late Middle Ages.’

Contributor, “Textiles, Trade, and Meaning in the Courts of Northern Italy at the time of Isabella d’Este” Sponsored by Australian Centre for Italian Studies

Committee Member, “Renaissance Children” Exhibition at Museum Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen, Belgium: 26.03.2021 – 4.07.2021” (2019-2021)

SELECT AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• 2025 SOPHIS Internal Research Grant
• 2024 Japan Past & Present Grant
• 2024 Mary Bennett Prize for Women’s History
• 2024 Philippa Maddern Prize ANZAMEMS
• 2024 Harold S. Williams National Library of Australia Fellow
• 2024 Japan Past & Present Award
• 2023 veski and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Bilateral Exchange Award
• 2023 Universities Australia and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Bilateral Exchange Award
• 2022 Renaissance Society of America Paul Oskar Kristeller Fellow
• 2022 Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America Junior Fellow
• 2021 Australian Centre for Italian Studies Publishing Grant
• 2018 Royal Studies Journal/Canterbury Christ Church University
• 2017 Monash Historical Studies Master Prize 
• 2017 Nominated: Vice Chancellor’s Commendation for Thesis Excellence
• 2017-2021 Monash Graduate Excellence Scholarship

LANGUAGES
English, Portuguese, Italian, German, and Japanese. Reading: French, Latin, Spanish.