Dr Emanuela Vai BA, MMus, MPhil, MEd, PGCert (Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies), PhD

Dr Emanuela Vai is the Scott Opler Fellow at Worcester College and a Lecturer in History of Art and Renaissance Music at the University of Oxford. Previously, she has held positions at the University of Cambridge; at the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York (CREMS); and at the Harvard Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, where she was Hanna Kiel Fellow. She has recently been appointed as visiting professor at the Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance de Tours (CESR).

Her work has received the support of fellowships and grants from the British Academy, the Society for Renaissance Studies, the Royal Historical Society, the Renaissance Society of America, the Kress Foundation, the École Pratique des Hautes Études, the Academia Belgica and the Newton Trust at the University of Cambridge, among others.