Tatiana Avesani is a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies program working between the fields of Classics and Italian Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Tatiana’s research has mainly focused on analyzing the relationship between language and identity in the Italian Renaissance. They’ve explored the ways in which vernacular and Neo-Latin literary production influenced each other in the development of Italian language at a time of political and cultural instability. More recently, Tatiana’s interests have been directed towards the study of queer and trans theory in relation to Italy’s Early Modern literary production. Specifically, that has led them to explore the influence of Latin and Greek literature and mythology on the Italian Renaissance.