Shannon McHugh

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Shannon McHugh is Assistant Director of Research at The Huntington Library and the author of 'Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy' (Amsterdam University Press, 2023). Prior to returning to her home state of California, she had been Associate Professor of French and Italian at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research ranges from Renaissance literature to contemporary fandom culture, interests that have taken her everywhere from the Vatican Secret Archives to the Walt Disney Imagineering Library.

Experience

  • 2025–present
    Assistant Director of Research, The Huntington Library
  • 2016–2025
    Associate professor, UMass Boston

Education

  • 2015 
    New York University, PhD in French and Italian

Publications

  • 2023
    Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy, Amsterdam University Press (https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463720274/petrarch-and-the-making-of-gender-in-renaissance-italy)

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