Sarah Rolfe Prodan

Sarah Rolfe Prodan is an assistant professor at Stanford University. A scholar of Michelangelo and of early modern Italy, she studies relations among poetry, art, and piety in the period. Prior to joining Stanford, she was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of History at Harvard University and at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at Victoria University in the University of Toronto, where she designed and taught Renaissance and early modern cultural history courses and lectured on Italian language and literature. Her publications include the award-winning monograph Michelangelo’s Christian Mysticism: Spirituality, Poetry and Art in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and the co-edited volume Friendship and Sociability in Premodern Europe: Contexts, Concepts, and Expressions (Toronto: CRRS, 2014).