PORTFOLIO

Editorial Work

Critical Editions & Transcriptions

• Vittoria Colonna, Poems of Widowhood: A Bilingual Edition of the 1538 Rime, tr. Ramie Targoff, ed. Ramie Targoff and Troy Tower (Iter, 2021)
• Gaspara Stampa, The Complete Poems: The 1554 Edition of the Rime, a Bilingual Edition, tr. Jane Tylus, ed. Jane Tylus and Troy Tower (University of Chicago Press, 2010)

Editorial Management

• Cristina Iuli, Aaron Jaffe and Stefano Morello, ed., Transfer & Transatlanticism, Italian Style (1949-1972), MLN 140.1 (in preparation)
• Arielle Saiber and Laura Di Bianco, ed., Italian Issue, MLN 139.1 (2024)
• Arielle Saiber, ed., Italian Issue, MLN 138.1 (2023)
• Francesco Brenna and Alberto Zuliani, ed., Dante at 700: Singleton Revisited, MLN 137.1 (2022)

Development & Story Editing

• Meredith Ray, Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Renaissance (Routledge, 2024)
• Laura Di Bianco, “Toward a Non-Anthropocentric Italian Cinema: Pietro Marcello’s Lost and Beautiful”, Film and Philosophy 27 (2023): 69-87
• Bernadette Wegenstein and Lauren Benjamin Mushro, ed., Radical Equalities and Global Feminist Filmmaking: An Anthology (Vernon, 2022)
• Maria Grazia Lolla, “Read On, Keep Talking: The Mystery Genre in Integrated Language Curricula”, NeMLA Italian Studies 41 (2019): 113-133
• Alyssa Falcone, “Teaching the Plague in Times of Worry: A Critical Look at Early Modern Literature in the COVID-19 Classroom”, Sixteenth Century Journal 51 (2020): 157-160
• Bernadette Wegenstein, “Ideas of Beauty”, in Paul Deslandes, gen. ed., A Cultural History of Beauty in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury, forthcoming)
• Cammy Brothers, Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome (Princeton University Press, 2022)
• Katharina Piechocki, Reproductive Hercules: Poetics, Procreation and the Rise of the Opera Libretto (University of Chicago Press, in preparation)
• Bernadette Wegenstein, dir., Devoti Tutti, story ed. Troy Tower et al. (Waystone, 2023)
• William Egginton, The Splintering of the American Mind: Identity Politics, Inequality and Community on Today’s College Campuses (Bloomsbury, 2018)
• Laura Di Bianco, Wandering Women: Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking (Indiana University Press, 2022)
• Susan Weiss, “Perfect Beauty: Echoes of Dionysius of Halicarnassus in the Poetry and Music of the Trecento”, in Federica Brunori Deigan, Francesco Ciabattoni and Stefano Giannini, ed., Tradition and the Individual Text: Essays in Honor of Pier Massimo Forni, MLN 134.1 (2019), S167-S183
• Bernadette Wegenstein, Jane Campion: Philosopher and Filmmaker (Bloomsbury, in preparation)
• William Egginton, The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World (Bloomsbury, 2016)
• Tripp Rebrovick, “The Politics of Diet: ‘Eco-dietetics,’ Neoliberalism, and the History of Dietetic Discourses”, Politics Research Quarterly 68.4 (2015): 678-689
• Bryan Brazeau, “Who Wants to Live Forever? Overcoming Poetic Immortality in Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme conquistata”, MLN 129.1 (2014): 42-61
• Jane Tylus, Reclaiming Catherine of Siena: Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others (University of Chicago, 2009)

Line Editing

• Juliane Debeusscher, “An Attempt to Create an Existential Community in 1970s Italy: Territorial Intervention, Cultural Decentralisation and Social Participation in Operazione Arcevia”, Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana 46 (2023): 413-454
• Lara Demori, “Open Participation in Piero Manzoni’s Living Sculpture and Magic Base: Between Bodily Reification and Spectacle”, Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana 46 (2023): 305-328
• Yi-Ping Ong and William Egginton, ed., The New Politics of Existence, MLN 137.5 (2022)
• Marsha Libina, Sebastiano del Piombo and the Sacred Image: Mediating the Divine in the Age of Reform (Brepols, 2022)
• Lorenzo Buonanno, The Performance of Sculpture in Renaissance Venice (Routledge, 2022)
• Francesco Brenna, “Italian Early Modern Literary Theory and Milton: A Reassessment of the Journey to Italy”, Milton Quarterly 55.34 (2021): 185-200
• Susanne Fuchs, “Sorge and Faust: Towards a Literary Criticism of Denial”, Monatshefte 113.4 (2021): 579-597
• Maria Grazia Lolla, “Through a Glass Brightly: A Posthuman Rereading of Fausta Cialente’s Cortile a Cleopatra”, California Italian Studies 10.1 (2020)
• Maria Grazia Lolla, “«All That is Solid Melts into Air, All That is Holy is Profaned»: The Secular Modernity of Rosa Genoni”, Oblio 9.36 (2019): 139-156
• Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, Commentary on Dürer’s ‘Four Books on Human Proportion’: Renaissance Proportion Theory, tr. and ed. James Hutson (OpenBooks, 2020)
• Daniel Dragićević, “Schelling with Spinoza on Freedom”, in Yitzhak Melamed, ed., A Companion to Spinoza (Wiley, 2021), 538-547
• Maria Grazia Lolla, “From the Pole to the Equator: Animal Literacy and Animal Cruelty in the Narrative of Emilio Salgari”, Quaderni d’italianistica (forthcoming)
• Corina Kleinert, “Rubens and His Landscapes: Reflections on the Notion of ‘Otium’”, Oud Holland 136.2-3 (2023): 103-124
• Andrew Hui, “Poussin’s Allegory of Ruins”, in Walter Melion and Karl Enenkel, ed., Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500-1700 (Brill, 2021), 391-421
• Katharina Piechocki, Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2020)
• Eugenio Refini, The Vernacular Aristotle: Translation as Reception in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (Cambridge University, 2020)
• Fernando Loffredo, “Pirro Ligorio and Sculpture, or, on the Reproducibility of Antiquity”, in Fernando Loffredo and Ginette Vagenheim, ed., Pirro Ligorio’s Worlds: Antiquarianism, Classical Erudition and the Visual Arts in the Late Renaissance (Brill, 2019), 324-359
• Bernadette Wegenstein, “Agatha’s Breasts on a Plate: ‘Ugliness’ as Resistance and Queerness”, in Sara Rodrigues and Ela Przybylo, ed., On the Politics of Ugliness (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 219-235
• Elizabeth Patton, “Women, Books, and the Lay Apostolate: A Catholic Literary Network in Late Sixteenth-Century England”, in Leah Knight, Micheline White and Elizabeth Sauer, ed., Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain: Reading, Ownership, Circulation (University of Michigan Press, 2018), 117-134
• Tripp Rebrovick, “A Queer Politics of Touching: Walt Whitman’s Theory of Comrades”, Law, Culture and the Humanities 16.2 (2020): 313-331
• Elizabeth Patton, “Four Contemporary Translations of Dorothy Arundell’s Lost English Narratives”, Philological Quarterly 95.3-4 (2016): 397-424
• Yifat Monnickendam, “How Greek is Ephrem’s Syriac? Ephrem’s Commentary on Genesis as a Case Study”, Journal of Early Christian Studies 23.2 (2015): 213-244
• Bernadette Wegenstein, The Cosmetic Gaze: Body Modification and the Construction of Beauty (MIT, 2012)
• Walter Stephens, Zygmunt Barańsky, Theodore Cachey and Teresa Kennedy, ed., Tra Amici: Essays in Honor of Giuseppe Mazzotta, MLN 127.1 Supplement (2012)

Research Assistance

Targeted Research & Fact-Checking

• Lorenzo Buonanno, “Sculpture as a Foreign Art Form: Francesco Sansovino’s Dialog on Venice”, Sixteenth Century Journal 55.3-4 (2024): 503-543
• Shannon McHugh, Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy (Amsterdam University Press, 2023)
• Andrew Hui, “Things in the Decameron: How Objects Become Secular”, I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 25.2 (2022): 225-249
• Ramie Targoff, Shakespeare’s Sisters (Knopf/Riverrun, 2024)
• Elizabeth Patton, “Praying in the Margins across the Reformation: Readers’ Marks in Early Tudor Books of Hours”, in Katherine Acheson, ed., Early Modern English Marginalia (Routledge, 2019), 93-114
• Ramie Targoff, Renaissance Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Vittoria Colonna (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018)
• Jann Rosen-Queralt, Marian Ochoa and Kirsten Marie Walsh, ARGO (exhibited in 2017)
• Christopher Koch, Pietà dai capelli ribelli (exhibited in 2016)
• Pamela Betts and Glenn Gates, “Dressed in Tin: Analysis of the Textiles in the Abduction of Helen Series”, Journal of the Walters Art Museum 74 (2019)
• Don Brophy, Catherine of Siena: A Passionate Life (BlueBridge, 2010)
• Jane Tylus, “Imitating Othello: The Handkerchief, alla Italiana”, in Albert Russell Ascoli and William West, ed., Italy in the Drama of Europe, Renaissance Drama 36-37 (2010), 237-260

Bibliography & Indexing

• William Egginton, Alejandro Jodorowsky: Philosopher and Filmmaker (Bloomsbury, 2023)
• Laura Chiesa, ed., Resonances against Fascism: Modernist and Avant-Garde Sounds from Kurt Weill to Black Lives Matter (SUNY University Press, 2024)
• Virginia Cox and Shannon McHugh, ed., Vittoria Colonna: Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact (Amsterdam University Press, 2022)
• William Egginton, The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Pantheon, 2023)
• David Castillo and William Egginton, What Would Cervantes Do? Navigating Post-Truth with Spanish Baroque Literature (McGill-Queens University Press, 2022)
• Shannon McHugh and Anna Wainwright, ed., Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation (University of Delaware Press, 2020)
• David Castillo and William Egginton, “Cervantes, Reality Literacy, and Fundamentalism”, in Bruce Burningham, ed., Millennial Cervantes: New Currents in Cervantes Studies (University of Nebraska Press, 2020), 203-224

Film Production

• Bernadette Wegenstein, dir., The Conductor, production managers Troy Tower et al. (Waystone, 2021)
• Bernadette Wegenstein, dir., The Good Breast, subtitles by Troy Tower et al. (Waystone, 2016)

Translations

Prose

• Various Spanish documents authored by or concerning Miguel de Cervantes (17th-20th centuries), tr. Troy Tower, in David Castillo and William Egginton, What Would Cervantes Do? Navigating Post-Truth with Spanish Baroque Literature (McGill-Queens University Press, 2022), 75-123
• Jacopus da Varagine, “Saint Agatha” (circa 1260), tr. Bernadette Wegenstein and Troy Tower, in Bernadette Wegenstein, “Agatha’s Breasts on a Plate: ‘Ugliness’ as Resistance and Queerness”, in Sara Rodrigues and Ela Przybylo, ed., On the Politics of Ugliness (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 219-235, 220-225
• Various Latin and Italian documents authored by, addressed to or concerning Vittoria Colonna (15th-17th centuries), tr. Troy Tower, in Ramie Targoff, “Late Love: Vittoria Colonna and Reginald Pole”, in Virginia Cox and Shannon McHugh, ed., Vittoria Colonna: Poetry, Religion, Art and Impact (University of Toronto Press, 2022), 55-71, 58-69; also in Ramie Targoff, Renaissance Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Vittoria Colonna (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), 108-284
• Various Latin and Italian adaptations of Dorothy Arundell’s biography of John Cornelius (16th-17th centuries), tr. Troy Tower, in Elizabeth Patton, “Four Contemporary Translations of Dorothy Arundell’s Lost English Narratives”, Philological Quarterly 95.3-4 (2016): 397-424, 399-415; also in Elizabeth Patton, “From Community to Convent: The Collective Spiritual Life of Post-Reformation Englishwomen in Dorothy Arundell’s Biography of John Cornelius”, in Caroline Bowden and James Kelly, ed., The English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800: Communities, Culture and Identity (Ashgate, 2013), 19-32, 22-28; and in Elizabeth Patton, “Dorothy Arundell’s ‘Acts of Father John Cornelius’: ‘We Should Hear from Her, Herself—She Who Left a Record of It in These Words’”, ANQ 24.1 (2011): 51-62, 53-57
• Giorgio Grassi with baukuh, “Seven Questions, One Answer” (2013), tr. Troy Tower, San Rocco 8 (2014): 191-194
• Stefano Boeri, “Panorama” (2013), tr. Troy Tower, in baukuh, Panorama (baukuh, 2012)
• Daniele Pisani, “A Collaboration: Paul Engelmann and Ludwig Wittgenstein” (2012), tr. Troy Tower, San Rocco 6 (2013): 121-131

Verse

• Cesare Nebbia, from Del’ecellenza de la pittura (1594), in Marsha Libina, “Divine Visions: Image-Making and Imagination in Pictures of Saint Luke Painting the Virgin”, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 61.2 (2019): 234-263, 261-262

Pro Bono Service

• The Kennesaw Tower
• yellow // pink
• Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap
• Ecozon@
• Baltimore Food Cooperative
• Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance

Authored Works

• Troy Tower, “Narrative Vitality and the Forest in the Furioso”, in Walter Melion and Karl Enenkel, ed., Landscape and Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500-1700 (Brill, 2021), 457-478
• Troy Tower, “Natura narrans: Landscape as Literature in Early Modern Italy” (dissertation, Johns Hopkins, 2017)
• Troy Tower, “Anassilla: Stampa’s Poetic Ecology”, in Unn Falkeid and Aileen Astorga Feng, ed., Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry (Ashgate, 2015), 185-197
• Troy Tower, “Naming Trees in the Gerusalemme liberata”, Romance Studies 31.3-4 (2013): 139-151
• Troy Tower, “Suspicious Spaces in Ariosto’s Cinque canti”, Inquiry 10 (2006): 18-19

For a complete list of publications and collaborations, please see Troy’s CV.

Above: The cover of the first critical edition of the poetry of the renowned virtuosa Gaspara Stampa, The Complete Poems: The 1554 Edition of the Rime, a Bilingual Edition, tr. Jane Tylus, ed. Jane Tylus and Troy Tower (University of Chicago Press, 2010). Header: Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, MS Anglia 31 I–II, fol. 45r, transcribed and translated by Troy Tower, in Elizabeth Patton, “Four Contemporary Translations of Dorothy Arundell’s Lost English Narratives”, Philological Quarterly 95.3-4 (2016), 397-424; critical edition in preparation. Thanks to Heather Stein for website support.