Alani Hicks-Bartlett is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, French and Francophone Studies, and Hispanic Studies at Brown University. She works on Medieval and Early Modern French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and English Literature, as well as related Classical intertexts. She has a special interest in critical theory, disability studies, critical race theory, Petrarchism, and gender and sexuality studies across various genres—particularly drama (tragedy), and lyric and epic poetry. She is co-convener of Brown’s Disability Studies Working Group, supported by the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown, and is one of the chairs of the Renaissance Studies Seminar at Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center.