Courtney Quaintance joined the BSR as Programmes Manager in 2023. She holds an MA in Italian Renaissance Literature from Middlebury College, a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago, and a PhD in Music and the History of the Performing Arts from “La Sapienza” University of Rome. She was previously Associate Professor of Italian at Dartmouth College, where she taught Italian language and literature and served frequently as faculty director of the Dartmouth Rome Center. Her research interests include literary and academic translation, early modern Italian women writers, salon culture in sixteenth-century Venice, and seventeenth-century Italian opera, with particular focus on women singers.

Courtney is based in Rome. You can contact her at programmes.manager@bsrome.it.