PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Echoes of Women: Indigenous 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

SELECT AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• 2026 Academy of Social Sciences Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research
• 2026 Faculty of Arts Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning
• 2026 Academy of the Humanities Research Travelling Fellowship
• 2026 Advancing Women’s Success Grant
• 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.