Caroline Stark (Assistant Professor, Teaching & Instruction) completed in 2011 her doctorate in Classics and Renaissance Studies at Yale University. Her dissertation, The Role of Knowledge in Ancient and Renaissance Conceptions of Man, explores ancient stories of the birth and development of man and their reception among Italian humanists.
Her research interests include ancient and Renaissance cosmology, anthropology, and foundation literature; Renaissance Humanism; and the reception of classical antiquity in the Renaissance. She has published on the reception of Ovid in Dante's La Divina Commedia, and her essay, "The Renaissance Reception of Manilius' Anthropology," appeared in the volume, Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius' Astronomica (Oxford University Press, 2011).
During the summer of 2009 on a Berkeley, Biddle, and Woolsey Travel fellowship she traveled to Italy to research at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Medicea Laurenziana, and Riccardiana in Florence and the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples. She also was an Andrew W. Mellon research fellow at the Vatican Film Library at St. Louis University.