Interdisciplinary studies on Italian history and culture in Italy and beyond, c. 1400-1800
Maya Corry
Senior Lecturer in History of Art
Oxford Brookes
Maya Corry is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Oxford Brookes. Previously she held posts at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Lincoln. At Cambridge she was a member of the ERC-funded project ‘Domestic Devotions: the Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home’ and a lead co-curator of the exhibition ‘Madonnas & Miracles’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She uses visual, material and written sources to explore the social and cultural history of early modern Italy, with a particular focus on gender, sexuality, spirituality, medicine, childhood and adolescence, and the body. She has a forthcoming monograph, Beautiful Bodies: Sexuality, Spirituality and Gender in Leonardo’s Milan (OUP).