People
Faculty
Cynthia Klestinec
Title
- Assistant Professor
Education
- Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, 2001
- M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, 1995
- B.A., Comparative Literature, University of Georgia, 1994
Teaching Interests
- Renaissance literature
- Medicine, the body, and literature
- Scientific revolution
Research Interests
- Early modern anatomy, dissection, surgery
- Early modern midwifery
- Disease, pain and representation
Selected Publications
- “Civility, Comportment, and the Anatomy Theater: Girolamo Fabrici and His Medical Students in Renaissance Padua” in Renaissance Quarterly 60 (2007): 434–463.
- “Juan Valverde de (H)Amusco and Print Culture: the Editorial Apparatus in Vernacular Anatomy Texts” in Proceedings from Perceiving Bodies: Anatomies in Early Modern Europe, Center for Research in Early Modern History, Culture and Science, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-universitaet Frankfurt am Main, 2 vols. (2005): 78-94.
- “A History of Anatomy Theaters in Sixteenth-Century Padua” in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 59, no. 3 (2004): 375-412.
- “Theaters of Anatomy: Visual, Tactile and Conceptual Modes of Apprehension” in Theatrum anatomicum, Frei Universitaet (Berlin) (England: Brill) forthcoming
- “The Renaissance”, Gender Myths and Beliefs and Scientific Research, ed. Sue Rosser (ABC-CLIO Inc.), forthcoming
- “Health”, co-authored with Narin Hassan, Gender Myths and Beliefs and Scientific Research, ed. Sue Rosser (ABC-CLIO Inc.), forthcoming
Grants & Awards
2007-2008
- Villa i Tatti Fellowship, Harvard University, September 2007-June 2008
- American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship, September 2007-July 2008
2003-2006
- Boston Countway Library of Medicine, Fellowship, December 2005, May-June 2006
- NEH Summer Stipend, May-August, 2005
- Francis Bacon Fellow, Huntington Library, June-August, 2005
- Renaissance Society of America, travel grant, May 2005
- Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Research in Venice, May-June, 2004
Work in Progress
Professor Klestinec is currently finishing a full–length book project on the history of anatomy and anatomical theaters, which characterizes the dramatic features of anatomy and their influence on the practices and affects of early scientific inquiry; she is also beginning research on her next project, a study of Renaissance surgery—its texts, practitioners and patients—and the representation of pain.