Ms Maya Corry

Graduate Teaching Assistant in Early Modern History

Teaching

I teach Oriel undergraduates history papers that fall within the early modern era. Specifically, I teach British history 1500-1700 and General history 1400-1650 to first years, and British history 1500-1700 and General history 1500-1618 to second years. I am also happy to teach students Further Subject 7: Flanders and Italy in the Quattrocento, 1420-80, and Special Subject 10: Politics, Art and Culture in the Italian Renaissance: Venice and Florence, c.1475-1525.

Research

I am currently pursuing doctoral research into questions of age, gender, the body and its representation in Northern Italy c.1480-c.1530. Having studied at the Courtauld Institute as well as Oxford University my work is interdisciplinary, incorporating art history as well as social and cultural history. I am looking at art works that were being produced in Renaissance Milan by Leonardo da Vinci and his followers, in an exploration of how social constructions of youthful masculinity were being formulated and understood in the world of educated elites. I am interested in the intersection of ideologies of beauty and spiritual devotion, and in the sensory interaction between viewers of art works and depicted bodies.