Kate Driscoll is a scholar of late medieval and early modern European literary, political, and performance histories. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Colorado College. Most recently, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Freie Universität Berlin (2020–21), developing a book project on epic and empire on the early operatic stage. Her research focuses on Renaissance epic poetry and its musical-theatrical afterlives, modes of dialogue and mutual influence across art and diplomacy, questions of cosmopolitanism and political internationalism from the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries, and representations of gendered affect in literature and performance. Her publications include essays on early modern women performers and the boundaries of speech, female readers and authors of Italian chivalric epic, and colonial masculinity embodied on the eighteenth-century Venetian stage.