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Douglas Biow is the Superior Oil Company-Linward Shivers Centennial Professor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Director of the Center for European Studies and the France-UT Institute. Currently, he is working on a short book which examines Vasari's "Lives" as a history of ideas, as well as two other book projects: The first is on the history of the individual in European thought, and the second is an edited volume devoted to sociable spaces, beyond the court, in Renaissance Italy.

Biow has authored a number of articles and five books: "Mirabile Dictu: Representations of the Marvelous in Medieval and Renaissance Italy" (Michigan, 1996); "Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy" (Chicago, 2002); "The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy" (Cornell, 2006); "In Your Face: Professional Improprieities and the Art of Being Conspicuous" (Stanford, 2010); and most recently, "On the Importance of Being an Individual: Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). He has been the recipient of a number of scholarly awards, including NEH, Delmas, and Guggenheim Fellowships.

Ph.D. in Italian Language and Literature, Johns Hopkins University, 1990

M.A. in Italian Language and Literature, Johns Hopkins University, 1988

B.A. in Literature, Bennington College, 1979

B.A. in Music (Classic violin), Bennington College, 1979

cultural, literary, art, medical, diplomatic, and intellectual history of Renaissance Italy; masculinities; the history of individualism

Editorial Boards, Symposium: A Quarterly Journam in Modern Literatures (2013 - Present)

Editorial Boards, Explorations in Renaissance Culture (2011 - Present)

Reviewer, University of Chicago Press, Yale University Press, University of Toronto Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Routledge

Research in Venice and the Veneto - Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation (2008 - 2009)

Fellowship - The Humanities Institute (2008)

Outstanding Academic Title - Choice Magazine (2007)

Research in Venice and the Veneto - Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation (2007)

Fellowship - John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (2006 - 2007)

Research in Venice and the Veneto - Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation (2006)

Dean's Fellowship - The University of Texas at Austin (2005)

Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards for "Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries" - University Co-op (2003)

Fellowship - National Endowment for the Humanities (1996 - 1997)

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