Diana Maury Robin, professor emerita of classics at the University of New Mexico, has been awarded the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender.
During her 25 years on the faculty at the University of New Mexico, Dr. Robin led the comparative literature and cultural studies program and chaired the department of foreign languages and literatures. Currently, she is a scholar-in-residence at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Her career has been dedicated to mentoring other women scholars and advancing the field of the study on early modern women. More specifically, her scholarship focuses on the study of humanism in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy.
Dr. Robin has authored and edited numerous books, including Filelfo in Milan: Writings 1451-1477 (Princeton University Press, 1991) and Publishing Women: Salons, the Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2007). She is currently working on two book projects: The Life of Ippolita Maria Sforza: A Renaissance Woman in Naples and Filelfo’s Women: Literary Portraits from the Italian Renaissance Courts.
Dr. Robin is a graduate of Sweet Briar College, a liberal arts institution for women in Virginia. She holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Teachers College and a Ph.D. in classics from the University of Iowa.