{{Short description|British professor of Italian Literature, essayist, literary critic}} {{for|the Chilean journalist and author|Virginia Cox Balmaceda}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
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'''Virginia Cox''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|FBA}} (born 30 November 1962) is a British scholar of Italian literature, culture and history. She is best known for her research on Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italian literature, the reception of classical rhetorical theory in Italy between the 13th and 16th centuries and Italian early modern women's writing.
==Early life and education== From 1981 to 1985, she studied modern and medieval languages (Italian and Spanish) at the University of Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. She remained at Cambridge to undertake a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Italian, which she completed in 1990.
== Career == Cox completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1990. She has taught at the University of Edinburgh (1989-91), University College London (1991-92), the University of Cambridge (1992-2002), and New York University (2003-2021).
Since 2021, she has held the posts of Honorary Professor of Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture in the Department of Italian at Cambridge, and Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Master & Fellows |url=https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/fellows/master-fellows/ |access-date=10 January 2023 |website=Trinity College Cambridge |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Virginia Cox {{!}} Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics |url=https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/professor-virginia-cox |access-date=10 January 2023 |website=www.mmll.cam.ac.uk}}</ref>
== Honors and awards == Cox has received book awards from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women in 2005, 2009, and 2012 and the American Association of Publishers in 2008, and article awards from the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (''Rhetorica'' prize) in 2017 and the Renaissance Society of America (Nelson Prize) in 1996, 2004, and 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The William Nelson Prize |url=https://www.rsa.org/page/Nelsonprize |website=Renaissance Society of America}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=2008 Award Winners |url=https://proseawards.com/winners/2008-award-winners/ |access-date=15 January 2023 |website=PROSE Awards |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |title=2012 Award Winners – Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender |url=https://ssemwg.org/2012-award-winners/ |access-date=15 January 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=2005 awards – Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender |url=https://ssemwg.org/2005-awards/ |access-date=15 January 2023 |language=en |archive-date=20 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221220080715/https://ssemwg.org/2005-awards/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ISHR {{!}} A Journal of the History of Rhetoric |url=https://ishr-web.org/aws/ISHR/pt/sp/journal |access-date=18 January 2023 |website=ishr-web.org |language=en}}</ref>
She appeared in the 75th anniversary edition of ''Renaissance Quarterly''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=75th Anniversary Collection |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/renaissance-quarterly/collections/75th-anniversary-collection |access-date=10 January 2023 |website=Cambridge Core |language=en}}</ref>
In 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.<ref>{{cite web |title=Professor Virginia Cox has been elected as Fellow of the British Academy for the humanities and social sciences |url=https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-virginia-cox-has-been-elected-fellow-british-academy-humanities-social-sciences |access-date=11 August 2022 |website=Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics |publisher=University of Cambridge}}</ref><ref name="FBA">{{cite web |title=Professor Virginia Cox FBA |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/virginia-cox-fba/ |access-date=11 August 2022 |website=The British Academy |language=en}}</ref>
== Selected works ==
=== Monographs === * Cox, Virginia (1992). ''[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/renaissance-dialogue/87B3EA61380D998CE104385504FD7730 The Renaissance Dialogue: Literary Dialogue in its Social and Political Contexts, Castiglione to Galileo]''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-511-89571-5}}. * {{cite book |last1=Cox |first1=Virginia |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/monograph/book/3363 |title=Women's Writing in Italy, 1400–1650 |date=2008 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore, MD |isbn=978-0-8018-8819-9}} * Cox, Virginia (2011). ''[https://muse.jhu.edu/book/1721 The Prodigious Muse: Women's Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy]''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0160-7}}. * {{cite book |last1=Cox |first1=Virginia |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/monograph/book/49242 |title=Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance |date=2013 |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore, MD |isbn=978-1-4214-0887-3}} * {{cite book |last1=Cox |first1=Virginia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4fe5CwAAQBAJ |title=A Short History of the Italian Renaissance |date=2015 |publisher=I.B. Tauris |isbn=978-0-85772-974-3 |location=London}}
=== Edited books === * ''[https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/8306?rskey=dVDeQR&result=2 The Rhetoric of Cicero in its Medieval and Renaissance Traditions]''. Edited by Virginia Cox and John O. Ward. Leiden: Brill, 2006. {{ISBN|978-90-474-0464-4}} * ''[https://www.perlego.com/book/3794463/a-cultural-history-of-democracy-in-the-renaissance-pdf A Cultural History of Democracy in the Renaissance]''. Edited by Virginia Cox and Joanne Paul. Volume 3 of ''[https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-history-of-democracy-9781350042933/ A Cultural History of Democracy]''. Edited by Eugenio F. Biagini. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. {{ISBN|978-1-350-04293-3}} * ''[https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463723947/vittoria-colonna Vittoria Colonna: Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact]''. Edited by Virginia Cox and Shannon McHugh. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. {{ISBN|978-94-6372-394-7}}.
=== Editions of texts === * Fonte, Moderata (1997). [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo3683460.html ''The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men'']. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Translated by Virginia Cox. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. {{ISBN|978-0-226-25682-5}}. * Campiglia, Maddalena (2004). ''[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo3633872.html Flori, a Pastoral Drama]''. Edited by Virginia Cox and Lisa Sampson; translation by Virginia Cox. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. {{ISBN|978-0-226-09224-9}}. * Fonte, Moderata (2018). [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo28267409.html ''The Merits of Women: Wherein Is Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men'']. Translated by Virginia Cox. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. {{ISBN|978-0-226-55077-0}}.
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/virginia-cox-fba/ Professor Virginia Cox FBA] * [https://cambridge.academia.edu/VirginiaCox Virginia Cox | University of Cambridge - Academia.edu]
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