Alex Tadel
Contact: alex.tadel@warwick.ac.uk
I am a second-year PhD candidate, supervised by Professors Ingrid de Smet and David Lines. My PhD will provide the first study dedicated entirely to Latin letters by fifteenth-century Veneto women, a landmark in the development of early modern female authorship. I will aim not only to engage with the relatively well known collections of Isotta Nogarola, Cassandra Fedele and Laura Cereta, but also to shed light on their unknown contemporaries through archival research.
My PhD is fully funded by the UKRI AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership.
Education
University of Oxford · MSt Greek and Latin Languages and Literature · 2019 - 2020 · Distinction
University of Cambridge · BA Classics · 2016 - 2019 · II.i
Publications
Articles:
2022. 'Isotta Nogarola: Elegija v slavo cianskega podeželja', Keria: Studia Latina et Greca 24.1: 195-202
Book reviews:
2023. Review of Brizio, Elena and Marco Piana (eds). Idealizing Women in the Italian Renaissance (2022), Modern Language Review 118.4: 629-630
Non-academic:
2022. 'The Eternal Rome in Mobster Show Suburra: Blood on Rome', Pop Matters (online)
2021. 'Reading Like a Roman: Vergilius Vaticanus and the Puzzle of Ancient Book Culture', The Public Domain Review (online)
2020. 'Retelling the Minotaur Myth for the Age of Isolation', 3AM Magazine (online)
2020. 'Ancient Greek Abstract Art', Sententiae Antiquae (online)
Presentations
'Tuus in me singularis amor: The Epistolary Friendship between Polissena Messalto Grimaldi and Sancia di Chiaramonte', Women Latinists and the Republic of Letters Conference at The Medici Archive Project (Florence, 20 September 2024)
'Between Friends: Mixed-Gender Humanist Exchange in the Letters of Isotta Nogarola and Damiano dal Borgo (1438-1441)', Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting (Chicago, 21 March 2024)
'Polissena Messalto Grimaldi: An Early Quattrocento Female Latinist', Final Talk at Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies (Innsbruck, 14 December 2023)
'Unable to Function as Drama: Reimagining Orestes with Theatre of the Absurd', Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate Seminar (London [online], 5 March 2021)
Fellowships
Research Fellow at Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies (Innsbruck, November-December 2023)
Teaching
Academic:
Course Tutor, Latin Intermediate Course (University of Warwick, 2024)
Non-academic:
Volunteer Language Teacher, Student Action for Refugees (Coventry, 2023)
Volunteer Language Teacher, Slovene Philanthropy (Ljubljana, 2021–present)
Teaching Assistant, Bluebridge Education Group (Cambridge, 2019)
Organisation & Admin
Co-organiser, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance Postgraduate Seminar (2023-present)
Website Administrator, Society for Neo-Latin Studies (2024-present)