About Troy

Troy Tower (BA/MA, NYU ’09; PhD, Johns Hopkins ’17) has received one of the finest educations in Italian studies available in the United States, during which he was given many opportunities to assist on advanced scholarship, often in an editorial capacity. Upon graduating, he was thrilled to establish Humanist for Hire, an independent enterprise through which he could channel his experience as an editor, researcher and translator to bring many more texts to life. His extensive collaborative career includes everything from translating manuscript wedding contracts to composing dialogue for animated films and is always enriched by a new challenge. For a detailed list of publications he has edited, translated and authored, see his portfolio or his CV.

Though he has worked in drastically different fields across the humanities, arts and social sciences — from the ancient Near East to contemporary politics, the history of medicine to the history of architecture, economics dissertations to public art installations — many of his collaborations have sought to correct the underrepresentation of women in the history of early modern European cultural production. Gaspara Stampa, Vittoria Colonna, Dorothy Arundell, Catherine of Siena and even Saint Agatha have each had colossal influence in their respective periods and have been among the most rewarding subjects of Troy’s research. While all opportunities to collaborate will be happily considered, proposals concerning early modern women are thus especially welcome.

For more information, please contact Troy directly.

Above: Troy at the historic residence of the poet Ludovico Ariosto, a site visited during his original intensive course, 211/214.306.30 Medieval and Renaissance Italian Cities, taught in Siena, Ferrara and Venice for Johns Hopkins in January 2013; photo by Chantel Fletcher. 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.