# Virginia Cox

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{{Short description|British professor of Italian Literature, essayist, literary critic}}
{{for|the Chilean journalist and author|Virginia Cox Balmaceda}}
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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](/source/Italian_literature), [culture](/source/Culture_of_Italy) and [history](/source/History_of_Italy). She is best known for her research on [Renaissance](/source/Renaissance) and [Counter-Reformation](/source/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](/source/University_of_Cambridge), graduating with a [Bachelor of Arts](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) (BA) degree. She remained at Cambridge to undertake a [Doctor of Philosophy](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy) (PhD) degree in Italian, which she completed in 1990.

== Career ==
Cox completed her PhD at the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge) in 1990. She has taught at the [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh) (1989-91), [University College London](/source/University_College_London) (1991-92), the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge) (1992-2002), and [New York University](/source/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](/source/Trinity_College%2C_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](/source/Association_of_American_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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Moderata_Fonte) (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](/source/Maddalena_Campiglia) (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](/source/Moderata_Fonte) (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 ==
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== 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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