Female Scientists Breaking Barriers. Interview with Clara Stella

This interview belongs to a Ulysseus section created in honour of International Women’s Day showing commitment to a fairer world: ‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’.

Clara Stella holds a Ph.D. in Italian studies from the University of Leeds. From 2022 she is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Integrated Philologies at the University of Seville (Spain). She has previously been a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of History of Ideas at the University of Oslo with the project Women Writing Saints. Stella’s research focuses on early modern women’s writing, the querelle de femmes, the history of anthologies, and models of sanctity. Her publications include Lodovico Domenichi e le Rime diverse d’alcune nobilissime et virtuosissime donne (1559)(Classiques Garnier, Paris: 2022) and “Speaking with Authority: Reading Catherine of Siena in the Times of Vittoria Colonna”, Renaissance and Reformation, 44/4, 2022, pp. 9-50.